Live Oak Creek Mutual Water Company, CA
Lead reported as not detected
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 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Live Oak Creek Mutual Water Company
Live Oak Creek Mutual Water Company serves about 30 people through 13 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Santa Clara County, California. EPA system ID: CA4300829; phone on file: 408-377-3195. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is down 6 ppb from 6 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Live Oak Creek Mutual Water Company is 6 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 6 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. Live Oak Creek Mutual Water Company's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 2nd percentile in California and the 1st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Santa Clara County
72 other systems share Santa Clara County; 28 of them have a higher latest lead result than Live Oak Creek Mutual Water Company. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| San Jose Water | 1,039,920 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Sunnyvale | 157,566 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Santa Clara | 134,587 | 2.7 ppb |
| Great Oaks Wc Inc | 112,582 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of San Jose - Evg/Edv/Coy | 99,783 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Milpitas | 81,915 | 2.5 ppb |
| City Of Mountain View | 81,340 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Palo Alto | 67,658 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cwsc Los Altos Suburban | 63,559 | 1.5 ppb |
| City Of Gilroy | 59,426 | 2 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Live Oak Creek Mutual Water Company's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Live Oak Creek Mutual Water Company 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.