Olivehurst Public Utility District, 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.
Olivehurst Public Utility District at a glance
Olivehurst Public Utility District serves about 16,595 people through 4,483 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Yuba County, California. EPA system ID: CA5810003; phone on file: 530-743-8573. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Olivehurst Public Utility District is 0 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
Where this result ranks
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. Olivehurst Public Utility District's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 55th percentile in California and the 38th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
20 other systems share Yuba County; 13 of them have a higher latest lead result than Olivehurst Public Utility District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Linda County Water District | 21,654 | 1.69 ppb |
| Cal-Water Service Co.-Marysville | 12,888 | 0 (not detected) |
| Plumas Lake | 11,374 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Wheatland | 4,124 | 0.63 ppb |
| North Yuba Water District | 2,772 | 2.43 ppb |
| Beale Air Force Base | 2,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| River Highlands Csd | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Castlewood Mobile Home Park | 200 | 0.5 ppb |
| Countryside Mobile Home Park | 185 | 2.5 ppb |
| Camptonville Community Serv Dist | 180 | 10 ppb |
Next steps for Olivehurst, CA
Look up your address in Olivehurst Public Utility District'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 Olivehurst Public Utility District 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.