Millwood Acres, Inc., CA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.6 ppb (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. 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 Millwood Acres, Inc.
Millwood Acres, Inc. serves about 113 people through 42 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Kosciusko County, California. EPA system ID: IN5243016; phone on file: 805-794-3969. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Millwood Acres, Inc.'s lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Millwood Acres, Inc. is 2.6 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.6 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. Millwood Acres, Inc.'s 2.6 ppb sits at the 82nd percentile in California and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Kosciusko County
1 other system shares Kosciusko County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Millwood Acres, Inc.. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mecks Whispering Pines Ii Llc | 598 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Ojai, 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 Millwood Acres, Inc. 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.