Keeler Community Service District, CA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.2 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.
About Keeler Community Service District
Keeler Community Service District serves about 66 people through 87 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Inyo County, California. EPA system ID: CA1400036; phone on file: 661-616-5900. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 2.2 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Keeler Community Service District is 8 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 8 ppb |
How Keeler Community Service District 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. Keeler Community Service District's 2.2 ppb sits at the 80th percentile in California and the 75th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
43 other systems share Inyo County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Keeler Community Service District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bishop, City Of | 3,819 | 0 (not detected) |
| Inyo County Pwd - Lone Pine | 1,835 | 0 (not detected) |
| Highland Mobile Home Park | 1,260 | 0 (not detected) |
| Inyo County Pwd - Independence | 1,108 | 0 (not detected) |
| Indian Creek Csd | 1,030 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rolling Green Utilities, Inc. | 940 | 0 (not detected) |
| Big Pine Csd | 798 | 0 (not detected) |
| Meadowcreek Mutual Water Company | 764 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sierra Highland Csd | 600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Glenwood Mobile Estates | 468 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bakerfield, 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 Keeler Community Service District 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.