Orchard Valley Mobile Home Park, AZ
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.5 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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 Orchard Valley Mobile Home Park
Orchard Valley Mobile Home Park serves about 130 people through 52 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Pima County, Arizona. EPA system ID: AZ0420159; phone on file: 520-344-9126. 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 4.5 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Orchard Valley Mobile Home Park is 4.5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 4.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.4 ppb |
Where this result ranks
Of the 730 Arizona systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0 ppb; 9 are over 15 ppb right now and 58 have gone over at some point. Orchard Valley Mobile Home Park's 4.5 ppb sits at the 89th percentile in Arizona and the 89th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
137 other systems share Pima County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Orchard Valley Mobile Home Park. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Tucson City Of | 732,906 | 0.65 ppb |
| Metropolitan Dwid | 45,570 | 0.57 ppb |
| Oro Valley Water Utility | 42,316 | 1 ppb |
| Community Wc Of Green Valley | 22,085 | 0 (not detected) |
| Usaf Davis Monthan Afb | 18,640 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sahuarita Water Company | 18,178 | 0 (not detected) |
| Vail Water Company | 17,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Flowing Wells Irrigation District | 16,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Marana Municipal - Marana | 15,162 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tucson Water Corona De Tucson | 10,217 | 0.78 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Tucson, AZ 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 Orchard Valley Mobile Home 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.