Thousand Trails - Morgan Hill, CA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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 Thousand Trails - Morgan Hill
Thousand Trails - Morgan Hill serves about 13 people through 354 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: CA4300615; phone on file: 408-779-6396. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Thousand Trails - Morgan Hill is 35 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 35 ppb over 15 |
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. Thousand Trails - Morgan Hill's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 0th percentile in California and the 0th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
72 other systems share Santa Clara County; 28 of them have a higher latest lead result than Thousand Trails - Morgan Hill. 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 |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Morgan Hill, 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 Thousand Trails - Morgan Hill 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.