Gold Country Home Park - Water System, CA
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 10.1 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Gold Country Home Park - Water System at a glance
Gold Country Home Park - Water System serves about 60 people through 27 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Nevada County, California. EPA system ID: CA2900529; phone on file: 925-577-7460. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Gold Country Home Park - Water System's lead record
That is up 1.56 ppb from 8.54 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Gold Country Home Park - Water System is 10.1 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 10.1 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 8.54 ppb |
| 2017 | 8.48 ppb |
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. Gold Country Home Park - Water System's 10.1 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in California and the 97th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Nevada County
20 other systems share Nevada County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Gold Country Home Park - Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Truckee-Donner Pud, Main | 36,730 | 3.9 ppb |
| Nevada Id - E. George, Banner Mountain | 17,154 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nevada Id - Loma Rica | 14,072 | 0.77 ppb |
| Nevada Id - Lake Wildwood | 9,108 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nevada Id - Lake Of Pines | 6,870 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Grass Valley | 4,947 | 0.88 ppb |
| City Of Nevada City | 3,148 | 0 (not detected) |
| Washington Water District | 330 | 41.4 ppb |
| Creekside Village | 300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ananda Village | 226 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Sacramento, 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 Gold Country Home Park - Water System 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. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.