Psmcsd - Springfield Ws, CA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2025-2027). 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.
Who runs the water here
Psmcsd - Springfield Ws serves about 200 people through 34 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Monterey County, California. EPA system ID: CA2700771; phone on file: 831-722-1389. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Psmcsd - Springfield Ws's lead record
That is down 4.7 ppb from 4.7 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Psmcsd - Springfield Ws is 12 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2027 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 4.7 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2018 | 12 ppb over 10 |
Against other California systems
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. Psmcsd - Springfield Ws's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 27th percentile in California and the 15th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Monterey County
155 other systems share Monterey County; 90 of them have a higher latest lead result than Psmcsd - Springfield Ws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Cal Am Water Company - Monterey | 128,928 | 1 ppb |
| Cwsc Salinas | 114,286 | 1.2 ppb |
| Alco Water Service | 56,253 | 0 (not detected) |
| Marina Coast Water District | 38,918 | 0 (not detected) |
| Soledad, City Of | 19,732 | 0 (not detected) |
| Greenfield, City Of | 18,967 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cwsc King City | 14,046 | 0 (not detected) |
| Gonzales, City Of | 8,333 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cwsc Salinas Hills | 7,733 | 0.9 ppb |
| Castroville Community Services District | 7,515 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Royal Oaks, CA
Look up your address in Psmcsd - Springfield Ws'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 Psmcsd - Springfield Ws whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1430 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.