Rough & Ready Village, CA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.63 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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 Rough & Ready Village
Rough & Ready Village serves about 154 people through 56 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: CA2900530; phone on file: 209-932-8747. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 4.24 ppb from 1.39 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Rough & Ready Village is 5.63 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 5.63 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.39 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.45 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. Rough & Ready Village's 5.63 ppb sits at the 93rd percentile in California and the 92nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
20 other systems share Nevada County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Rough & Ready Village. 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) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Stockton, 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 Rough & Ready Village 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.