Los Molinos Comm. Services Dist., CA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Los Molinos Comm. Services Dist. serves about 1,450 people through 390 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Tehama County, California. EPA system ID: CA5210003; phone on file: 530-384-2737. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Los Molinos Comm. Services Dist. is 0 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Los Molinos Comm. Services Dist. 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. Los Molinos Comm. Services Dist.'s reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 44th percentile in California and the 29th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Tehama County
47 other systems share Tehama County; 19 of them have a higher latest lead result than Los Molinos Comm. Services Dist.. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Red Bluff | 14,286 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Corning | 8,244 | 1.08 ppb |
| Rio Alto Water District | 3,377 | 0 (not detected) |
| Gerber Las Flores Csd | 1,200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mineral County Water District | 634 | 4.21 ppb |
| Rio Vista Mobile Home Park | 543 | 7.35 ppb |
| Vista Grande Water System | 468 | 0.89 ppb |
| City Of Tehama | 436 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sky View County Water | 429 | 0 (not detected) |
| River Ranch Mobile Home Park | 305 | 3.22 ppb |
Next steps for Los Molinos, CA
Look up your address in Los Molinos Comm. Services Dist.'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 Los Molinos Comm. Services Dist. 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.