Sonoma County Csa 41-Salmon Creek, CA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Sonoma County Csa 41-Salmon Creek
Sonoma County Csa 41-Salmon Creek serves about 327 people through 99 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 Sonoma County, California. EPA system ID: CA4900543; phone on file: 707-565-3580. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Sonoma County Csa 41-Salmon Creek's lead record
That is down 2.2 ppb from 2.2 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sonoma County Csa 41-Salmon Creek is 17 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2023 | 17 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 10 ppb |
How Sonoma County Csa 41-Salmon Creek compares
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. Sonoma County Csa 41-Salmon Creek's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 33rd percentile in California and the 19th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
128 other systems share Sonoma County; 24 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sonoma County Csa 41-Salmon Creek. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Santa Rosa, City Of | 178,452 | 1.32 ppb |
| Petaluma, City Of | 61,427 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rohnert Park, City Of | 43,821 | 0 (not detected) |
| Windsor, Town Of | 25,561 | 0 (not detected) |
| Valley Of The Moon Water District | 23,140 | 0 (not detected) |
| Healdsburg, City Of | 10,972 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sonoma, City Of | 10,619 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cloverdale, City Of | 8,710 | 0 (not detected) |
| California-American Larkfield (Puc) | 7,911 | 6 ppb |
| Sebastopol, City Of | 7,522 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Santa Rosa, 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 Sonoma County Csa 41-Salmon Creek 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.