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Vierra Knolls Mwc, 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.

About Vierra Knolls Mwc

Vierra Knolls Mwc serves about 66 people through 22 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Monterey County, California. EPA system ID: CA2702055; phone on file: 831-663-1949. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.

Vierra Knolls Mwc'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 Vierra Knolls Mwc is 0 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.

Period ending90th-percentile lead
20260 (not detected)
20230 (not detected)
20200 (not detected)
20170 (not detected)

How Vierra Knolls Mwc compares

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. Vierra Knolls Mwc's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 12th 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.

Neighbouring systems

155 other systems share Monterey County; 90 of them have a higher latest lead result than Vierra Knolls Mwc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.

SystemPeopleLatest lead
Cal Am Water Company - Monterey128,9281 ppb
Cwsc Salinas114,2861.2 ppb
Alco Water Service56,2530 (not detected)
Marina Coast Water District38,9180 (not detected)
Soledad, City Of19,7320 (not detected)
Greenfield, City Of18,9670 (not detected)
Cwsc King City14,0460 (not detected)
Gonzales, City Of8,3330 (not detected)
Cwsc Salinas Hills7,7330.9 ppb
Castroville Community Services District7,5150 (not detected)

What to do in your house

Look up your address in Vierra Knolls Mwc'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 Vierra Knolls Mwc 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.