Forest Point Mhc, CA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 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.
About Forest Point Mhc
Forest Point Mhc serves about 62 people through 22 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Amador County, California. EPA system ID: CA0300024; phone on file: 209-644-7200. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Forest Point Mhc's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Forest Point Mhc is 32 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 18 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 7 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 32 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 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. Forest Point Mhc's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 11th percentile in California and the 5th 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 Forest Point Mhc. 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 Stockton, CA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Stockton, 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 Forest Point Mhc whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1450 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. More in what a past exceedance means today.