Fairway Downs Mutual Water Co, CA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.88 ppb (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. 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 Fairway Downs Mutual Water Co
Fairway Downs Mutual Water Co serves about 100 people through 27 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Yuba County, California. EPA system ID: CA5800572; phone on file: 916-205-0296. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Fairway Downs Mutual Water Co's lead record
That is up 3.88 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fairway Downs Mutual Water Co is 3.88 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.88 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1.79 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.1 ppb |
How Fairway Downs Mutual Water Co 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. Fairway Downs Mutual Water Co's 3.88 ppb sits at the 89th percentile in California and the 86th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
20 other systems share Yuba County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fairway Downs Mutual Water Co. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Linda County Water District | 21,654 | 1.69 ppb |
| Olivehurst Public Utility District | 16,595 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cal-Water Service Co.-Marysville | 12,888 | 0 (not detected) |
| Plumas Lake | 11,374 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Wheatland | 4,124 | 0.63 ppb |
| North Yuba Water District | 2,772 | 2.43 ppb |
| Beale Air Force Base | 2,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| River Highlands Csd | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Castlewood Mobile Home Park | 200 | 0.5 ppb |
| Countryside Mobile Home Park | 185 | 2.5 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Plumas Lake, 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 Fairway Downs Mutual Water Co 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.