Hermon Mhp Llc, CA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.8 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.
Hermon Mhp Llc at a glance
Hermon Mhp Llc serves about 43 people through 17 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Penobscot County, California. EPA system ID: ME0007336; phone on file: 818-635-5155. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.2 ppb from 1.6 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hermon Mhp Llc is 2.8 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.3 ppb |
How Hermon Mhp Llc compares
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. Hermon Mhp Llc's 2.8 ppb sits at the 83rd percentile in California and the 79th nationally (higher means more lead).
Next steps for Valley Village, CA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Valley Village, 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 Hermon Mhp Llc 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.