Oakland Park, CA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.92 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.
Who runs the water here
Oakland Park serves about 1,659 people through 335 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in King George County, California. EPA system ID: VA6099350; phone on file: 540-775-8562. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Oakland Park's lead record
That is up 3.92 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Oakland Park is 4.6 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.92 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 4.54 ppb |
| 2016 | 4.6 ppb |
How Oakland Park 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. Oakland Park's 3.92 ppb sits at the 89th percentile in California and the 87th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share King George County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Oakland Park. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| King George Co. Courthouse | 3,985 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kgcsa-Dahlgren | 2,650 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hopyard Farm | 1,772 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fairview Beach-Potomac Landing | 928 | 5.6 ppb |
| St. Pauls Church-Owens | 242 | 3.4 ppb |
| Circle | 230 | 0.28 ppb |
| Canterbury Subdivision | 208 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nindes Store | 97 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; King George, 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 Oakland Park 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.