Fcsa 32 - Cantua Creek, CA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.7 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.
Fcsa 32 - Cantua Creek at a glance
Fcsa 32 - Cantua Creek serves about 468 people through 80 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 Fresno County, California. EPA system ID: CA1000359; phone on file: 559-600-4482. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2023 (1.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fcsa 32 - Cantua Creek is 2.3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 2.3 ppb |
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. Fcsa 32 - Cantua Creek's 1.7 ppb sits at the 76th percentile in California and the 66th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
99 other systems share Fresno County; 19 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fcsa 32 - Cantua Creek. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Fresno | 545,970 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Clovis | 133,118 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Sanger | 26,357 | 0 (not detected) |
| Reedley, City Of | 26,076 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cws - Selma | 25,651 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bakman Water Company | 17,393 | 0 (not detected) |
| Coalinga-City | 17,277 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kerman, City Of | 17,256 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pinedale County Water District | 16,736 | 2.9 ppb |
| City Of Parlier | 14,576 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Fresno, 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 Fcsa 32 - Cantua Creek 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.