Plavada Community Association, CA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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
Plavada Community Association serves about 126 people through 279 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Nevada County, California. EPA system ID: CA2910011; phone on file: 530-426-3980. 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 12.2 ppb from 12.2 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Plavada Community Association is 15.26 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 12.2 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 15.26 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 13.54 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 8.2 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. Plavada Community Association's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 21st percentile in California and the 11th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
20 other systems share Nevada County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Plavada Community Association. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Truckee-Donner Pud, Main | 36,730 | 3.9 ppb |
| Nevada Id - E. George, Banner Mountain | 17,154 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nevada Id - Loma Rica | 14,072 | 0.77 ppb |
| Nevada Id - Lake Wildwood | 9,108 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nevada Id - Lake Of Pines | 6,870 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Grass Valley | 4,947 | 0.88 ppb |
| City Of Nevada City | 3,148 | 0 (not detected) |
| Washington Water District | 330 | 41.4 ppb |
| Creekside Village | 300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ananda Village | 226 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Soda Springs, CA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Soda Springs, 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 Plavada Community Association 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. More in what a past exceedance means today.