Nevada Id - Lake Wildwood, CA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
Nevada Id - Lake Wildwood at a glance
Nevada Id - Lake Wildwood serves about 9,108 people through 3,225 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Nevada County, California. EPA system ID: CA2910023; phone on file: 530-273-6185. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2023 (0.56 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Nevada Id - Lake Wildwood is 0.56 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0.56 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
How Nevada Id - Lake Wildwood 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. Nevada Id - Lake Wildwood's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 53rd percentile in California and the 37th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Nevada County
20 other systems share Nevada County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Nevada Id - Lake Wildwood. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Truckee-Donner Pud, Main | 36,730 | 3.9 ppb |
| Nevada Id - E. George, Banner Mountain | 17,154 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nevada Id - Loma Rica | 14,072 | 0.77 ppb |
| Nevada Id - Lake Of Pines | 6,870 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Grass Valley | 4,947 | 0.88 ppb |
| City Of Nevada City | 3,148 | 0 (not detected) |
| Washington Water District | 330 | 41.4 ppb |
| Creekside Village | 300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ananda Village | 226 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rough & Ready Village | 154 | 5.63 ppb |
Next steps for Grass Valley, CA
Look up your address in Nevada Id - Lake Wildwood'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 Nevada Id - Lake Wildwood 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.