Nice Mutual Water Company, 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
Nice Mutual Water Company serves about 2,929 people through 1,050 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Lake County, California. EPA system ID: CA1710008; phone on file: 707-274-1149. 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 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Nice Mutual Water Company is 0 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Nice Mutual Water Company 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. Nice Mutual Water Company's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 47th percentile in California and the 33rd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Lake County
41 other systems share Lake County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Nice Mutual Water Company. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Highlands Mutual Water Company | 7,772 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hidden Valley Lake Csd | 6,235 | 0 (not detected) |
| Konocti County Water District | 5,928 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lakeport, City Of | 4,762 | 0 (not detected) |
| Golden State Water Co.-Clearlake System | 4,623 | 4.1 ppb |
| Mt. Konocti Mutual Water Company | 4,360 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kelseyville Co Waterworks District 3 | 4,102 | 5.2 ppb |
| Lake County Csa 21 - North Lakeport | 4,046 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cobb Area County Water District | 3,515 | 0 (not detected) |
| Clearlake Oaks County Water District | 2,359 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Nice Mutual Water Company'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 Nice Mutual 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.