Cws - Mullen Water Company, CA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.4 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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 Cws - Mullen Water Company
Cws - Mullen Water Company serves about 138 people through 42 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Tulare County, California. EPA system ID: CA5400935; phone on file: 408-367-8593. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2020 (0.59 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cws - Mullen Water Company is 1.4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 0.59 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
Where this result ranks
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. Cws - Mullen Water Company's 1.4 ppb sits at the 74th percentile in California and the 62nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Tulare County
90 other systems share Tulare County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cws - Mullen Water Company. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Cws - Visalia | 153,522 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tulare, City Of | 72,241 | 0 (not detected) |
| Porterville, City Of | 63,487 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dinuba, City Of | 27,641 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lindsay, City Of | 12,659 | 0 (not detected) |
| Exeter, City Of | 11,169 | 11 ppb |
| Farmersville, City Of | 10,243 | 1.3 ppb |
| Orosi Public Utility District | 8,300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Woodlake, City Of | 7,918 | 0 (not detected) |
| Earlimart Pud | 7,679 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; San Jose, 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 Cws - Mullen Water Company 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.