Yuba Apartment Homes, CA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.2 ppb (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. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
About Yuba Apartment Homes
Yuba Apartment Homes serves about 40 people through 13 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Sutter County, California. EPA system ID: CA5102025; phone on file: 530-844-0028. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2021 (1.1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Yuba Apartment Homes is 3.3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.69 ppb |
How Yuba Apartment Homes 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. Yuba Apartment Homes's 1.2 ppb sits at the 72nd percentile in California and the 58th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Sutter County
7 other systems share Sutter County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Yuba Apartment Homes. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Yuba City | 70,256 | 0.85 ppb |
| City Of Live Oak | 9,687 | 1.3 ppb |
| Sutter Community S.D. | 2,904 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wildewood East Mutual | 350 | 2.5 ppb |
| Golden State Water Co. - Robbins | 207 | 1.6 ppb |
| Tierra Buena Mhp #1 | 50 | 0.45 ppb |
| Harmony Village | 25 | 2.1 ppb |
Next steps for Yuba City, CA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Yuba City, 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 Yuba Apartment Homes 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.