Lukins Brothers Water Company, CA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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 Lukins Brothers Water Company
Lukins Brothers Water Company serves about 3,277 people through 993 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in El Dorado County, California. EPA system ID: CA0910007; phone on file: 530-541-2606. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lukins Brothers Water Company's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lukins Brothers Water Company is 3 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 ppb |
| 2024 | 3 ppb |
| 2022 | 3 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 2 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. Lukins Brothers Water Company's 3 ppb sits at the 86th percentile in California and the 82nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in El Dorado County
18 other systems share El Dorado County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lukins Brothers Water Company. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| El Dorado Id - Main | 128,408 | 0 (not detected) |
| South Tahoe Pud - Main | 30,089 | 0 (not detected) |
| Georgetown Divide Pud | 9,434 | 0 (not detected) |
| Placerville, City Of - Main | 9,224 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tahoe Keys Water Company | 1,420 | 2.5 ppb |
| Tahoe City Pud - Rubicon | 1,384 | 2.2 ppb |
| Grizzly Flats Community Servic | 1,093 | 2.5 ppb |
| Lakeside Park Association | 924 | 0 (not detected) |
| El Dorado Id - Outingdale | 478 | 0 (not detected) |
| El Dorado Id - Strawberry | 357 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for South Lake Tahoe, CA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; South Lake Tahoe, 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 Lukins Brothers 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. 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.