Tahoe City Pud - Rubicon, CA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.2 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.
Who runs the water here
Tahoe City Pud - Rubicon serves about 1,384 people through 635 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in El Dorado County, California. EPA system ID: CA0910012; phone on file: 530-580-6330. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 5.6 ppb from 7.8 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Tahoe City Pud - Rubicon is 7.8 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 7.8 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.4 ppb |
How Tahoe City Pud - Rubicon 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 - Rubicon's 2.2 ppb sits at the 80th percentile in California and the 75th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
18 other systems share El Dorado County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Tahoe City Pud - Rubicon. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| El Dorado Id - Main | 128,408 | 0 (not detected) |
| South Tahoe Pud - Main | 30,089 | 0 (not detected) |
| Georgetown Divide Pud | 9,434 | 0 (not detected) |
| Placerville, City Of - Main | 9,224 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lukins Brothers Water Company | 3,277 | 3 ppb |
| Tahoe Keys Water Company | 1,420 | 2.5 ppb |
| Grizzly Flats Community Servic | 1,093 | 2.5 ppb |
| Lakeside Park Association | 924 | 0 (not detected) |
| El Dorado Id - Outingdale | 478 | 0 (not detected) |
| El Dorado Id - Strawberry | 357 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
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 - Rubicon whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1700 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.