June Lake Pud - Down Canyon, CA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 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.
June Lake Pud - Down Canyon at a glance
June Lake Pud - Down Canyon serves about 310 people through 404 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Mono County, California. EPA system ID: CA2610004; phone on file: 760-648-7778. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
June Lake Pud - Down Canyon's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (2.5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for June Lake Pud - Down Canyon is 2.5 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.3 ppb |
How June Lake Pud - Down Canyon 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. June Lake Pud - Down Canyon's 2 ppb sits at the 78th percentile in California and the 71st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
17 other systems share Mono County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than June Lake Pud - Down Canyon. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mammoth Cwd | 8,234 | 1.5 ppb |
| Mountain Meadows Mwc | 525 | 4.4 ppb |
| Usmc - Housing Coleville | 424 | 1.3 ppb |
| Bridgeport Pud | 374 | 1.9 ppb |
| Lower Rock Creek Mutual Water Co. | 310 | 0 (not detected) |
| Usmc/Mtn Warfare Trng Ctr - Bridgeport | 300 | 1 ppb |
| June Lake Pud Village | 263 | 2.7 ppb |
| Crowley Lake Trailer Park | 230 | 9.4 ppb |
| Lee Vining Public Utility District | 222 | 8 ppb |
| Lundy Mutual Water Company | 200 | 3.7 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; June Lake, 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 June Lake Pud - Down Canyon 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.