Jed Smith Homeowners Assn., CA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.3 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.
About Jed Smith Homeowners Assn.
Jed Smith Homeowners Assn. serves about 58 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 Del Norte County, California. EPA system ID: CA0800825; phone on file: 530-515-5020. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Jed Smith Homeowners Assn.'s lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (0.71 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Jed Smith Homeowners Assn. is 1.3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.71 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.7 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. Jed Smith Homeowners Assn.'s 1.3 ppb sits at the 73rd percentile in California and the 60th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Del Norte County
15 other systems share Del Norte County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Jed Smith Homeowners Assn.. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Crescent City | 15,202 | 3.01 ppb |
| Bertsch Ocean View Csd | 2,669 | 0 (not detected) |
| Smith River C.S.D. | 2,568 | 4.05 ppb |
| Gasquet C.S.D. | 657 | 0.74 ppb |
| Big Rock C.S.D. | 513 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northcrest Mobile Home Park | 250 | 1.18 ppb |
| Klamath C.S.D. | 240 | 5.7 ppb |
| Redwood Park C.S.D. | 200 | 4.2 ppb |
| Hrc C.S.D. | 185 | 3.35 ppb |
| Pine Grove Mobile Home Park | 142 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Crescent City, CA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Crescent City, 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 Jed Smith Homeowners Assn. 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.