Laurel Community League, CA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2026-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Laurel Community League serves about 64 people through 23 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Santa Cruz County, California. EPA system ID: CA4400528; phone on file: 831-252-5509. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is down 3.4 ppb from 3.4 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Laurel Community League is 704 ppb across 16 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2025 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2024 | 12.4 ppb over 10 |
| 2024 | 704 ppb over 15 |
| 2023 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2023 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 5.9 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 4 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.47 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Laurel Community League's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 11th percentile in California and the 5th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
51 other systems share Santa Cruz County; 27 of them have a higher latest lead result than Laurel Community League. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz Water Department | 94,626 | 0 (not detected) |
| Watsonville, City Of | 65,231 | 1.2 ppb |
| Soquel Creek Water District | 40,962 | 2 ppb |
| San Lorenzo Valley Water Dist | 21,513 | 2.7 ppb |
| Scotts Valley Water District | 11,197 | 0.69 ppb |
| Slvwd - Felton Water System | 4,491 | 0.95 ppb |
| Central Water District | 2,726 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mission Springs Conference Center | 1,310 | 2.4 ppb |
| Mt. Hermon Association, Inc. | 1,176 | 0 (not detected) |
| Big Basin Water Company | 1,120 | 12 ppb |
Next steps for Los Gatos, CA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Los Gatos, 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 Laurel Community League whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1581 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. More in what a past exceedance means today.