Fowler Care Center, CA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.1 ppb (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. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Fowler Care Center at a glance
Fowler Care Center serves about 46 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Fresno County, California. EPA system ID: CA1000199; phone on file: 559-834-2519. 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 1.7 ppb from 2.8 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fowler Care Center is 10.3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.9 ppb |
| 2016 | 10.3 ppb over 10 |
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. Fowler Care Center's 1.1 ppb sits at the 71st percentile in California and the 56th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
99 other systems share Fresno County; 25 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fowler Care Center. 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) |
Next steps for Fowler, CA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Fowler, 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 Fowler Care Center 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.