Golden Feather Mhp, CA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.87 ppb (monitoring period 2020-2022). 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.
Golden Feather Mhp at a glance
Golden Feather Mhp serves about 275 people through 101 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Butte County, California. EPA system ID: CA0400030; phone on file: 916-246-8290. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Golden Feather Mhp's lead record
Against the period ending 2019 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Golden Feather Mhp is 329 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.87 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 329 ppb over 15 |
Where this result ranks
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. Golden Feather Mhp's 0.87 ppb sits at the 68th percentile in California and the 48th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
41 other systems share Butte County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Golden Feather Mhp. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Cal-Water Service Co.-Chico | 110,473 | 0 (not detected) |
| South Feather W&P - Miners Ranch | 22,638 | 0 (not detected) |
| Thermalito Water & Sewer Dist | 12,209 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cal-Water Service Co.-Oroville | 11,047 | 0.9 ppb |
| Del Oro Water Co.-Paradise Pines | 10,738 | 0.54 ppb |
| Paradise Irrigation District | 9,114 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Gridley | 7,269 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Biggs | 2,060 | 6.91 ppb |
| Durham Irrigation District | 1,581 | 0.74 ppb |
| Del Oro Water Co.-Lime Saddle Marina | 954 | 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 Golden Feather Mhp 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. More in what a past exceedance means today.