Fort Jones, Town Of, CA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 27 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. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
About Fort Jones, Town Of
Fort Jones, Town Of serves about 673 people through 398 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Siskiyou County, California. EPA system ID: CA4710003; phone on file: 530-468-2281. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Fort Jones, Town Of's lead record
That is up 23.9 ppb from 3.1 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fort Jones, Town Of is 27 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 27 ppb over 15 |
| 2023 | 3.1 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 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. Fort Jones, Town Of's 27 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in California and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
29 other systems share Siskiyou County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fort Jones, Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Yreka, City Of | 7,879 | 0.6 ppb |
| Mt. Shasta, City Of | 3,642 | 1.36 ppb |
| Lake Shastina C.S.D | 2,790 | 1.68 ppb |
| Weed, City Of | 2,662 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dunsmuir, City Of | 1,707 | 6.55 ppb |
| Mccloud C.S.D. | 1,317 | 7.4 ppb |
| Montague, City Of | 1,264 | 1.56 ppb |
| Happy Camp C.S.D. | 1,100 | 1.62 ppb |
| Tulelake, City Of | 925 | 1.6 ppb |
| Dorris, City Of | 887 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Fort Jones, CA
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Fort Jones, Town Of 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.