Comunidad Nuevo Lago, Inc, CA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Comunidad Nuevo Lago, Inc at a glance
Comunidad Nuevo Lago, Inc serves about 160 people through 66 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Fresno County, California. EPA system ID: CA1000244; phone on file: 209-683-0228. 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 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Comunidad Nuevo Lago, Inc is 32 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 32 ppb over 15 |
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. Comunidad Nuevo Lago, Inc's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 24th percentile in California and the 13th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
99 other systems share Fresno County; 30 of them have a higher latest lead result than Comunidad Nuevo Lago, Inc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Fresno | 545,970 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Clovis | 133,118 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Sanger | 26,357 | 0 (not detected) |
| Reedley, City Of | 26,076 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cws - Selma | 25,651 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bakman Water Company | 17,393 | 0 (not detected) |
| Coalinga-City | 17,277 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kerman, City Of | 17,256 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pinedale County Water District | 16,736 | 2.9 ppb |
| City Of Parlier | 14,576 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Turlock, 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 Comunidad Nuevo Lago, Inc 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.