South County Retirement Home, CA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
South County Retirement Home at a glance
South County Retirement Home serves about 46 people through 3 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Santa Clara County, California. EPA system ID: CA4300832; phone on file: 408-683-0229. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 3.2 ppb from 3.2 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for South County Retirement Home is 8 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 4.31 ppb |
| 2016 | 8 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. South County Retirement Home's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 7th percentile in California and the 3rd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Santa Clara County
72 other systems share Santa Clara County; 28 of them have a higher latest lead result than South County Retirement Home. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| San Jose Water | 1,039,920 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Sunnyvale | 157,566 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Santa Clara | 134,587 | 2.7 ppb |
| Great Oaks Wc Inc | 112,582 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of San Jose - Evg/Edv/Coy | 99,783 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Milpitas | 81,915 | 2.5 ppb |
| City Of Mountain View | 81,340 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Palo Alto | 67,658 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cwsc Los Altos Suburban | 63,559 | 1.5 ppb |
| City Of Gilroy | 59,426 | 2 ppb |
Next steps for San Martin, CA
Look up your address in South County Retirement Home'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 South County Retirement Home 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.