First Mace Meadows Unit No. 2, CA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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 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.
Who runs the water here
First Mace Meadows Unit No. 2 serves about 230 people through 82 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Amador County, California. EPA system ID: CA0310018; phone on file: 209-296-3121. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for First Mace Meadows Unit No. 2 is 0 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
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. First Mace Meadows Unit No. 2's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 29th percentile in California and the 16th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Amador County
18 other systems share Amador County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than First Mace Meadows Unit No. 2. 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) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in First Mace Meadows Unit No. 2'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 First Mace Meadows Unit No. 2 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.