Upper Little Bear Mountain Club, CA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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.
Upper Little Bear Mountain Club at a glance
Upper Little Bear Mountain Club serves about 72 people through 36 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in San Bernardino County, California. EPA system ID: CA3600446; phone on file: 909-510-5600. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2025 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Upper Little Bear Mountain Club is 4.3 ppb across 14 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 4.3 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
Against other California systems
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. Upper Little Bear Mountain Club's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 13th percentile in California and the 6th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
146 other systems share San Bernardino County; 34 of them have a higher latest lead result than Upper Little Bear Mountain Club. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| San Gabriel Valley Wc - Fontana | 228,270 | 0 (not detected) |
| San Bernardino City | 214,665 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cucamonga Valley Water District | 213,375 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ontario Municipal Utilities Company | 185,010 | 0.6 ppb |
| Victorville Water District | 140,721 | 0 (not detected) |
| San Bernardino Valley Wd | 109,608 | - |
| East Valley Water District | 108,600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hesperia Wd | 101,836 | 0 (not detected) |
| West Valley Water District | 96,123 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chino, City Of | 90,187 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Blue Jay, CA
Look up your address in Upper Little Bear Mountain Club'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 Upper Little Bear Mountain Club whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 2260 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.