Ventura River Water District, CA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
About Ventura River Water District
Ventura River Water District serves about 6,100 people through 2,235 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 surface water, in Ventura County, California. EPA system ID: CA5610022; phone on file: 805-646-3403. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Ventura River Water District is 3.1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.1 ppb |
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. Ventura River Water District's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 50th percentile in California and the 35th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
67 other systems share Ventura County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Ventura River Water District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Oxnard Water Dept | 200,232 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ventura Water Department | 112,285 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ventura Wwd No. 8 - Simi Valley | 94,736 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cal American Water Co | 66,809 | 3 ppb |
| City Of Thousand Oaks Water Department | 54,770 | 0 (not detected) |
| Camarillo Water Dept | 47,701 | 0 (not detected) |
| Golden State Water Company - Simi Valley | 45,086 | 6 ppb |
| Ventura Cwwd No. 1 - Moorpark | 35,514 | 0 (not detected) |
| Camrosa Water District | 32,700 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Santa Paula | 31,786 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Ventura River Water District'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 Ventura River Water District 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.