Orleans C.S.D., CA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.6 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Orleans C.S.D.
Orleans C.S.D. serves about 636 people through 167 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 surface water, in Humboldt County, California. EPA system ID: CA1200729; phone on file: 530-627-3201. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 2.6 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Orleans C.S.D. is 1500 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 1500 ppb over 15 |
How Orleans C.S.D. 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. Orleans C.S.D.'s 2.6 ppb sits at the 82nd percentile in California and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
43 other systems share Humboldt County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Orleans C.S.D.. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Eureka, City Of | 27,078 | 2.3 ppb |
| Humboldt C.S.D. | 19,775 | 2.05 ppb |
| Arcata, City Of | 18,857 | 2.54 ppb |
| Mckinleyville C.S.D. | 16,900 | 1.78 ppb |
| Fortuna, City Of | 12,133 | 1.8 ppb |
| Rio Dell, City Of | 3,300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Garberville Sanitary District | 2,041 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fieldbrook Glendale C.S.D. | 1,845 | 0 (not detected) |
| Willow Creek C.S.D. | 1,720 | 0 (not detected) |
| Del Oro Water Co-Ferndale | 1,662 | 3.5 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Orleans, 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 Orleans C.S.D. 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.