Fcsa 44d - Monte Verdi, CA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.7 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Fcsa 44d - Monte Verdi at a glance
Fcsa 44d - Monte Verdi serves about 350 people through 126 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 groundwater, in Fresno County, California. EPA system ID: CA1000550; phone on file: 559-600-4482. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 12.3 ppb from 16 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fcsa 44d - Monte Verdi is 16 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3.7 ppb |
| 2021 | 16 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 3.8 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 44d - Monte Verdi's 3.7 ppb sits at the 88th percentile in California and the 86th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
99 other systems share Fresno County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fcsa 44d - Monte Verdi. 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) |
What to do in your house
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 44d - Monte Verdi 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.