Fiddletown Community Service, CA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Fiddletown Community Service at a glance
Fiddletown Community Service serves about 100 people through 66 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 Amador County, California. EPA system ID: CA0300019; phone on file: 209-245-3991. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fiddletown Community Service is 0 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Fiddletown Community Service 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. Fiddletown Community Service's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 18th percentile in California and the 9th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
18 other systems share Amador County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fiddletown Community Service. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Awa Buckhorn Plant | 8,791 | 0 (not detected) |
| Awa, Ione | 7,227 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Jackson | 5,079 | 0 (not detected) |
| Awa, Tanner | 4,940 | 0 (not detected) |
| Awa - Camanche Village | 2,402 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jackson Valley Irrigation District | 1,303 | 0 (not detected) |
| Plymouth, City Of | 1,060 | 0 (not detected) |
| First Mace Meadow # 1 | 838 | 0 (not detected) |
| River Pines Pud | 574 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hope Foundation/Moriah Heights | 299 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Fiddletown, CA
Look up your address in Fiddletown Community Service'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 Fiddletown Community Service 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.