Shasta Co Csa # 13 Alpine Meadows, CA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.12 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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 Shasta Co Csa # 13 Alpine Meadows
Shasta Co Csa # 13 Alpine Meadows serves about 109 people through 34 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Shasta County, California. EPA system ID: CA4500314; phone on file: 530-245-6596. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.12 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Shasta Co Csa # 13 Alpine Meadows is 1.12 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.12 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Shasta Co Csa # 13 Alpine Meadows's 1.12 ppb sits at the 72nd percentile in California and the 58th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
58 other systems share Shasta County; 25 of them have a higher latest lead result than Shasta Co Csa # 13 Alpine Meadows. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Redding | 90,254 | 2.13 ppb |
| Bella Vista Water District | 18,767 | 1.83 ppb |
| City Of Anderson | 11,323 | 2.4 ppb |
| City Of Shasta Lake | 10,371 | 1.13 ppb |
| Clear Creek Csd-Anderson | 8,900 | 3.61 ppb |
| Centerville C.S.D. | 4,244 | 2.09 ppb |
| Cottonwood Water District | 3,316 | 0 (not detected) |
| Shasta C.S.D. | 3,069 | 0.97 ppb |
| Burney Water District | 3,000 | 0.87 ppb |
| Mountain Gate C.S.D. | 2,227 | 2.84 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Redding, 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 Shasta Co Csa # 13 Alpine Meadows 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.