Placer Cwa - Alta, CA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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 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.
Placer Cwa - Alta at a glance
Placer Cwa - Alta serves about 1,044 people through 384 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 Placer County, California. EPA system ID: CA3110024; phone on file: 530-823-2066. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 12 ppb from 12 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Placer Cwa - Alta is 12 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 12 ppb over 10 |
| 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. Placer Cwa - Alta's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 42nd percentile in California and the 27th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Placer County
50 other systems share Placer County; 29 of them have a higher latest lead result than Placer Cwa - Alta. 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 |
Next steps for Auburn, CA
Look up your address in Placer Cwa - Alta'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 Placer Cwa - Alta 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.