Veterans Home Of California, CA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 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 Veterans Home Of California
Veterans Home Of California serves about 1,000 people through 10 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by the state and draws surface water, in Napa County, California. EPA system ID: CA2810008; phone on file: 707-944-4809. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Veterans Home Of California's lead record
That is down 7.9 ppb from 7.9 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Veterans Home Of California is 27 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 7.9 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 26 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 4.1 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 27 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. Veterans Home Of California's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 42nd percentile in California and the 27th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
27 other systems share Napa County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Veterans Home Of California. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Napa, City Of | 84,804 | 0 (not detected) |
| American Canyon, City Of | 18,423 | 0 (not detected) |
| Calistoga, City Of | 5,610 | 0 (not detected) |
| St. Helena, City Of | 5,386 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Yountville | 2,785 | 0 (not detected) |
| Howell Mountain Mutual Water Company | 1,244 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pacific Union College | 758 | 7.8 ppb |
| Berryessa Highlands | 715 | 0 (not detected) |
| Adventist Health - St. Helena Hospital | 617 | 0 (not detected) |
| Circle Oaks Water District | 500 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Yountville, 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 Veterans Home Of California 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.