Cove Mobile Villa, CA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.87 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
About Cove Mobile Villa
Cove Mobile Villa serves about 105 people through 46 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Siskiyou County, California. EPA system ID: CA4700626; phone on file: 916-862-4803. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Cove Mobile Villa's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (4.5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cove Mobile Villa is 4.87 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 4.87 ppb |
| 2022 | 4.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Cove Mobile Villa 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. Cove Mobile Villa's 4.87 ppb sits at the 91st percentile in California and the 90th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
29 other systems share Siskiyou County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cove Mobile Villa. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Yreka, City Of | 7,879 | 0.6 ppb |
| Mt. Shasta, City Of | 3,642 | 1.36 ppb |
| Lake Shastina C.S.D | 2,790 | 1.68 ppb |
| Weed, City Of | 2,662 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dunsmuir, City Of | 1,707 | 6.55 ppb |
| Mccloud C.S.D. | 1,317 | 7.4 ppb |
| Montague, City Of | 1,264 | 1.56 ppb |
| Happy Camp C.S.D. | 1,100 | 1.62 ppb |
| Tulelake, City Of | 925 | 1.6 ppb |
| Dorris, City Of | 887 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Sacramento, CA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Sacramento, 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 Cove Mobile Villa 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.