Lakeshore Heights Mutual Water, CA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.75 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 Lakeshore Heights Mutual Water
Lakeshore Heights Mutual Water serves about 264 people through 68 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Shasta County, California. EPA system ID: CA4500014; phone on file: 530-238-8239. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lakeshore Heights Mutual Water's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lakeshore Heights Mutual Water is 0.75 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.75 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Lakeshore Heights Mutual Water 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. Lakeshore Heights Mutual Water's 0.75 ppb sits at the 67th percentile in California and the 47th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Shasta County
58 other systems share Shasta County; 33 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lakeshore Heights Mutual Water. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Redding | 90,254 | 2.13 ppb |
| Bella Vista Water District | 18,767 | 1.83 ppb |
| City Of Anderson | 11,323 | 2.4 ppb |
| City Of Shasta Lake | 10,371 | 1.13 ppb |
| Clear Creek Csd-Anderson | 8,900 | 3.61 ppb |
| Centerville C.S.D. | 4,244 | 2.09 ppb |
| Cottonwood Water District | 3,316 | 0 (not detected) |
| Shasta C.S.D. | 3,069 | 0.97 ppb |
| Burney Water District | 3,000 | 0.87 ppb |
| Mountain Gate C.S.D. | 2,227 | 2.84 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lakehead, 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 Lakeshore Heights Mutual Water 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.