El Centro, City Of, CA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.
El Centro, City Of at a glance
El Centro, City Of serves about 44,124 people through 10,315 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Imperial County, California. EPA system ID: CA1310004; phone on file: 760-337-4575. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
El Centro, City Of's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for El Centro, City Of is 0 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How El Centro, City Of 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. El Centro, City Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 59th 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 Imperial County
28 other systems share Imperial County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than El Centro, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Calexico, City Of | 40,357 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brawley, City Of | 26,862 | 0 (not detected) |
| Imperial, City Of | 22,102 | 0 (not detected) |
| Gswc - Calipatria | 7,475 | 0 (not detected) |
| Heber Public Utility District | 7,312 | 0 (not detected) |
| Holtville, City Of | 6,355 | 0.9 ppb |
| Calipatria State Prison | 4,800 | 1.6 ppb |
| Centinela State Prison | 4,100 | 1.6 ppb |
| Westmorland, City Of | 2,202 | 0 (not detected) |
| Seeley Cwd | 1,729 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for El Centro, CA
Look up your address in El Centro, City Of'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 El Centro, City Of 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.