Tahoe City Pud - Main, CA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.4 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Who runs the water here
Tahoe City Pud - Main serves about 6,411 people through 2,921 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Placer County, California. EPA system ID: CA3110010; phone on file: 530-580-6330. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Tahoe City Pud - Main's lead record
That is up 4.4 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Tahoe City Pud - Main is 4.4 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4.4 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.2 ppb |
How Tahoe City Pud - Main 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. Tahoe City Pud - Main's 4.4 ppb sits at the 91st percentile in California and the 89th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
50 other systems share Placer County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Tahoe City Pud - Main. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Roseville | 165,736 | 0 (not detected) |
| Placer Cwa - Foothill | 93,417 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Lincoln | 56,268 | 0 (not detected) |
| Placer Cwa - Auburn/Bowman | 27,317 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cal Am - West Placer | 9,547 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nevada Id - North Auburn | 6,870 | 0 (not detected) |
| Foresthill Public Utility Dist | 6,811 | 0 (not detected) |
| North Tahoe Pud - Main | 6,321 | 1.45 ppb |
| Northstar Csd - Martis Valley | 4,432 | 0.85 ppb |
| Meadow Vista Cwd | 4,217 | 0.65 ppb |
Next steps for Tahoe City, CA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Tahoe City, 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 Tahoe City Pud - Main 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.