City Of Vallejo, CA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
City Of Vallejo at a glance
City Of Vallejo serves about 121,420 people through 36,795 service connections, which makes it a very large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Solano County, California. EPA system ID: CA4810007; phone on file: 707-648-5439. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Vallejo is 1.4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 1.4 ppb |
How City Of Vallejo compares
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 Vallejo's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 62nd percentile in California and the 40th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Solano County
25 other systems share Solano County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Vallejo. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Fairfield | 120,720 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Vacaville | 99,650 | 0 (not detected) |
| Suisun-Solano Water Authority | 29,105 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Benicia | 27,131 | 2.3 ppb |
| California Water Service Co.-Travis Afb | 18,111 | 1.7 ppb |
| City Of Dixon | 12,540 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Rio Vista | 11,206 | 0 (not detected) |
| California Water Service Co. - Dixon | 10,623 | 0 (not detected) |
| California State Prison - Solano | 3,882 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Vallejo-Lakes System | 2,800 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Vallejo, CA
Look up your address in City Of Vallejo's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask City Of Vallejo 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.