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Oak Trail Ranch, 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.

Oak Trail Ranch at a glance

Oak Trail Ranch serves about 102 people through 31 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Santa Barbara County, California. EPA system ID: CA4200802; phone on file: 805-688-8065. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.

Lead results over time

That is down 10 ppb from 10 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Oak Trail Ranch is 10 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.

Period ending90th-percentile lead
20250 (not detected)
202210 ppb
20190 (not detected)

Against other California systems

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. Oak Trail Ranch's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 18th percentile in California and the 10th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.

Nearby utilities

62 other systems share Santa Barbara County; 15 of them have a higher latest lead result than Oak Trail Ranch. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.

SystemPeopleLatest lead
City Of Santa Maria Utilities Department112,2080 (not detected)
City Of Santa Barbara Water Department93,3342.5 ppb
Goleta Water District85,5350 (not detected)
Lompoc-City Water Utility Div40,5380 (not detected)
Golden State Water Company - Orcutt34,2672.6 ppb
Carpinteria Valley Water District16,3560 (not detected)
American Water O&M, Llc - Vsfb14,9710 (not detected)
Montecito Water Dist12,0100 (not detected)
Guadalupe Water Department8,8970 (not detected)
Vandenberg Village Comm. Serv. Dist.7,3080 (not detected)

What to do in your house

Look up your address in Oak Trail Ranch'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 Oak Trail Ranch 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.