Port Of Call - West, CA

Lead detected, under the action levels

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.39 ppb (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. 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 Port Of Call - West

Port Of Call - West serves about 105 people through 61 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Van Buren County, California. EPA system ID: MI0040491; phone on file: 619-296-9000. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.

Every lead result on file

The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Port Of Call - West is 2.39 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 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. Port Of Call - West's 2.39 ppb sits at the 81st percentile in California and the 76th nationally (higher means more lead).

Your move

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; San Diego, 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 Port Of Call - West whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1390 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).

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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.