Nps - Death Valley, Furnace Creek, CA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.3 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 Nps - Death Valley, Furnace Creek
Nps - Death Valley, Furnace Creek serves about 150 people through 150 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is federally owned and draws groundwater, in Inyo County, California. EPA system ID: CA1410505; phone on file: 760-786-3295. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 3.3 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Nps - Death Valley, Furnace Creek is 3.3 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Nps - Death Valley, Furnace Creek 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. Nps - Death Valley, Furnace Creek's 3.3 ppb sits at the 87th percentile in California and the 84th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Inyo County
43 other systems share Inyo County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Nps - Death Valley, Furnace Creek. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bishop, City Of | 3,819 | 0 (not detected) |
| Inyo County Pwd - Lone Pine | 1,835 | 0 (not detected) |
| Highland Mobile Home Park | 1,260 | 0 (not detected) |
| Inyo County Pwd - Independence | 1,108 | 0 (not detected) |
| Indian Creek Csd | 1,030 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rolling Green Utilities, Inc. | 940 | 0 (not detected) |
| Big Pine Csd | 798 | 0 (not detected) |
| Meadowcreek Mutual Water Company | 764 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sierra Highland Csd | 600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Glenwood Mobile Estates | 468 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Death Valley, 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 Nps - Death Valley, Furnace Creek 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.