Olympic Valley Psd, CA
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 14.4 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
About Olympic Valley Psd
Olympic Valley Psd serves about 1,165 people through 901 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 Placer County, California. EPA system ID: CA3110020; phone on file: 775-588-3130. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 12.54 ppb from 1.86 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Olympic Valley Psd is 14.4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 14.4 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 1.86 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.5 ppb |
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. Olympic Valley Psd's 14.4 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in California and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
50 other systems share Placer County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Olympic Valley Psd. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Roseville | 165,736 | 0 (not detected) |
| Placer Cwa - Foothill | 93,417 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Lincoln | 56,268 | 0 (not detected) |
| Placer Cwa - Auburn/Bowman | 27,317 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cal Am - West Placer | 9,547 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nevada Id - North Auburn | 6,870 | 0 (not detected) |
| Foresthill Public Utility Dist | 6,811 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tahoe City Pud - Main | 6,411 | 4.4 ppb |
| North Tahoe Pud - Main | 6,321 | 1.45 ppb |
| Northstar Csd - Martis Valley | 4,432 | 0.85 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Olympic 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 Olympic Valley Psd 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.