Don Pedro Rec Ag:Flem.Meadows, CA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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.
Don Pedro Rec Ag:Flem.Meadows at a glance
Don Pedro Rec Ag:Flem.Meadows serves about 41 people through 113 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Tuolumne County, California. EPA system ID: CA5500048; phone on file: 209-852-2396. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Don Pedro Rec Ag:Flem.Meadows's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Don Pedro Rec Ag:Flem.Meadows is 0 ppb across 13 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 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. Don Pedro Rec Ag:Flem.Meadows's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 5th percentile in California and the 2nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
48 other systems share Tuolumne County; 16 of them have a higher latest lead result than Don Pedro Rec Ag:Flem.Meadows. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Tud - Upper Basin Water System | 13,331 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tud - Sonora/Jamestown Water System | 11,113 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tud - Columbia Water System | 5,482 | 5.4 ppb |
| Cdcr - Sierra Conservation Center | 3,571 | 0 (not detected) |
| Groveland Community Serv Dist | 3,400 | 0 (not detected) |
| Twain Harte Community Services District | 2,378 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tud - Tuolumne Water System | 1,798 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tud - Ponderosa | 1,781 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cold Springs Water Co | 1,771 | 2.8 ppb |
| Lake Don Pedro Csd | 1,700 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Don Pedro Rec Ag:Flem.Meadows'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 Don Pedro Rec Ag:Flem.Meadows whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 2042 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.