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Mireval Improvement Association, CA

Lead detected, under the action levels

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6 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 Mireval Improvement Association

Mireval Improvement Association serves about 60 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Santa Clara County, California. EPA system ID: CA4300741; phone on file: 408-354-9101. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.

Mireval Improvement Association's lead record

That is up 6 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mireval Improvement Association is 6 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.

Period ending90th-percentile lead
20256 ppb
20220 (not detected)
20190 (not detected)
20160 (not detected)

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. Mireval Improvement Association's 6 ppb sits at the 94th percentile in California and the 93rd nationally (higher means more lead).

Neighbouring systems

72 other systems share Santa Clara County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mireval Improvement Association. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.

SystemPeopleLatest lead
San Jose Water1,039,9200 (not detected)
City Of Sunnyvale157,5660 (not detected)
City Of Santa Clara134,5872.7 ppb
Great Oaks Wc Inc112,5820 (not detected)
City Of San Jose - Evg/Edv/Coy99,7830 (not detected)
City Of Milpitas81,9152.5 ppb
City Of Mountain View81,3400 (not detected)
City Of Palo Alto67,6580 (not detected)
Cwsc Los Altos Suburban63,5591.5 ppb
City Of Gilroy59,4262 ppb

What to do in your house

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Los Gatos, 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 Mireval Improvement Association 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.