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Midway City Mutual Wc, CA

Lead reported as not detected

Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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

Midway City Mutual Wc serves about 1,305 people through 198 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Orange County, California. EPA system ID: CA3010097; phone on file: 714-532-9409. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.

Every lead result on file

That is down 2.78 ppb from 2.78 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Midway City Mutual Wc is 2.78 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.

Period ending90th-percentile lead
20250 (not detected)
20222.78 ppb
20190 (not detected)
20161.8 ppb

How Midway City Mutual Wc 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. Midway City Mutual Wc's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 43rd percentile in California and the 28th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.

Nearby utilities

39 other systems share Orange County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Midway City Mutual Wc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.

SystemPeopleLatest lead
Irvine Ranch Water District450,3230 (not detected)
City Of Anaheim350,2540 (not detected)
City Of Santa Ana316,1840 (not detected)
City Of Huntington Beach201,0000 (not detected)
City Of Garden Grove174,2260 (not detected)
Moulton Niguel Water District168,3150 (not detected)
Santa Margarita Water District165,2750 (not detected)
City Of Fullerton140,0541.5 ppb
City Of Orange120,7702.33 ppb
Golden State Wc - West Orange County114,6932.2 ppb

Next steps for Westminster, CA

Look up your address in Midway City Mutual Wc'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 Midway City Mutual Wc 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.