City Of Redding, CA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.13 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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 Redding at a glance
City Of Redding serves about 90,254 people through 31,166 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 surface water, in Shasta County, California. EPA system ID: CA4510005; phone on file: 530-224-6040. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (2.5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Redding is 2.5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.13 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
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 Redding's 2.13 ppb sits at the 79th percentile in California and the 74th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
58 other systems share Shasta County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Redding. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bella Vista Water District | 18,767 | 1.83 ppb |
| City Of Anderson | 11,323 | 2.4 ppb |
| City Of Shasta Lake | 10,371 | 1.13 ppb |
| Clear Creek Csd-Anderson | 8,900 | 3.61 ppb |
| Centerville C.S.D. | 4,244 | 2.09 ppb |
| Cottonwood Water District | 3,316 | 0 (not detected) |
| Shasta C.S.D. | 3,069 | 0.97 ppb |
| Burney Water District | 3,000 | 0.87 ppb |
| Mountain Gate C.S.D. | 2,227 | 2.84 ppb |
| Shasta Csa - Jones Valley, #6 | 2,006 | 1.57 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Redding, 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 Redding 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.