Shasta Csa - Sugarloaf, #2, CA
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 10.3 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
About Shasta Csa - Sugarloaf, #2
Shasta Csa - Sugarloaf, #2 serves about 274 people through 83 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 surface water, in Shasta County, California. EPA system ID: CA4500006; phone on file: 530-225-5661. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (11.2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Shasta Csa - Sugarloaf, #2 is 28.9 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 4 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 10.3 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 11.2 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 9.51 ppb |
| 2021 | 19.7 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 15.8 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 16.4 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 13 ppb over 10 |
| 2019 | 5.1 ppb |
| 2018 | 28.9 ppb over 15 |
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. Shasta Csa - Sugarloaf, #2's 10.3 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in California and the 97th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
58 other systems share Shasta County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Shasta Csa - Sugarloaf, #2. 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 Csa - Sugarloaf, #2 whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1790 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. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.