City Of Crescent City, CA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.01 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
City Of Crescent City at a glance
City Of Crescent City serves about 15,202 people through 3,825 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Del Norte County, California. EPA system ID: CA0810001; phone on file: 707-464-7483. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (3.01 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Crescent City is 4.8 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3.01 ppb |
| 2024 | 3.01 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 4.8 ppb |
Against other California systems
Of the 2,884 California systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0 ppb; 30 are over 15 ppb right now and 215 have gone over at some point. City Of Crescent City's 3.01 ppb sits at the 86th percentile in California and the 83rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
15 other systems share Del Norte County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Crescent City. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bertsch Ocean View Csd | 2,669 | 0 (not detected) |
| Smith River C.S.D. | 2,568 | 4.05 ppb |
| Gasquet C.S.D. | 657 | 0.74 ppb |
| Big Rock C.S.D. | 513 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northcrest Mobile Home Park | 250 | 1.18 ppb |
| Klamath C.S.D. | 240 | 5.7 ppb |
| Redwood Park C.S.D. | 200 | 4.2 ppb |
| Hrc C.S.D. | 185 | 3.35 ppb |
| Pine Grove Mobile Home Park | 142 | 0 (not detected) |
| Las Palmas Mobile Home Park | 120 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Crescent City, CA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Crescent City, CA may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask City Of Crescent City whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.