Plainview Mwc - Central Water, CA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2023). 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.
Who runs the water here
Plainview Mwc - Central Water serves about 138 people through 42 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Tulare County, California. EPA system ID: CA5400682; phone on file: 559-310-6629. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Plainview Mwc - Central Water's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0.39 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Plainview Mwc - Central Water is 90 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0.39 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 90 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Plainview Mwc - Central Water 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. Plainview Mwc - Central Water's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 22nd percentile in California and the 12th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
90 other systems share Tulare County; 16 of them have a higher latest lead result than Plainview Mwc - Central Water. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Cws - Visalia | 153,522 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tulare, City Of | 72,241 | 0 (not detected) |
| Porterville, City Of | 63,487 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dinuba, City Of | 27,641 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lindsay, City Of | 12,659 | 0 (not detected) |
| Exeter, City Of | 11,169 | 11 ppb |
| Farmersville, City Of | 10,243 | 1.3 ppb |
| Orosi Public Utility District | 8,300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Woodlake, City Of | 7,918 | 0 (not detected) |
| Earlimart Pud | 7,679 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Strathmore, 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 Plainview Mwc - Central Water 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.