Tahoe City Pud - Timberland, CA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
Tahoe City Pud - Timberland at a glance
Tahoe City Pud - Timberland serves about 301 people through 138 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 groundwater, in Placer County, California. EPA system ID: CA3100029; 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 - Timberland's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Tahoe City Pud - Timberland is 1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 1 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. Tahoe City Pud - Timberland'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.
Other water systems in Placer County
50 other systems share Placer County; 29 of them have a higher latest lead result than Tahoe City Pud - Timberland. 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) |
| Tahoe City Pud - Main | 6,411 | 4.4 ppb |
| North Tahoe Pud - Main | 6,321 | 1.45 ppb |
| Northstar Csd - Martis Valley | 4,432 | 0.85 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Tahoe City Pud - Timberland'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 Tahoe City Pud - Timberland 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.