Hardyville On The River, CA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.1 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Hardyville On The River at a glance
Hardyville On The River serves about 42 people through 39 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Mohave County, California. EPA system ID: AZ0408342; phone on file: 619-286-0178. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is down 6.9 ppb from 8 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hardyville On The River is 8 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2021 | 8 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Hardyville On The River's 1.1 ppb sits at the 71st percentile in California and the 56th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
2 other systems share Mohave County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hardyville On The River. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Joshua Valley Utility Company | 1,500 | 1 ppb |
| Katherine Resorts Water Company | 58 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for San Diego, CA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; San Diego, 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 Hardyville On The River 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.