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Cal Fire - Mountain Home Cnsrvtn Camp

What EPA’s and California’s records show in this utility’s water: nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals; lead and copper; and violations since 2016, with the certification that handles each result.

Serves
55 people
Connections
5
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Springville, CA
County
Tulare
Owner
State government
Hardness
Moderately hard

The short answer

3 results are above the health goal. The worst: Arsenic, above the health goal. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 2005 to 2024.

Arsenic, uranium, nitrate, fluoride, chromium (total) and total trihalomethanes (TTHM): California’s own results, samples taken from Jan. 23, 2020 to Oct. 23, 2025, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the health goal3

Arsenic

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

7.8ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2024

2024 average: 4.0 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 7.8 ppb, in 2020: below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. Its highest single sample was 14 ppb. In 2024, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 4.0 ppb. EPA recorded no violation for arsenic at this utility since 2020. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 10.7 ppb, in 2012.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction”

Uranium

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

8.9ppb

Highest yearly average, 2024 to 2025

2025, one sample: 8.0 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 8.9 ppb, in 2024: below EPA’s legal limit of 30 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. In 2025, the latest year on file, its one sample was 8.0 ppb.

What handles it

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the health goal

2.8ppb

90th percentile, 2022 to 2024

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 2.8 ppb, below EPA’s action level of 15 ppb. The action level drops to 10 ppb on Nov. 1, 2027. EPA’s health goal for lead is zero.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits2

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

1.7ppm

Highest sample; found in 5 of 12

2025 average: 0.1 ppm

The highest sample, in 2023, was 1.7 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2025, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 0.1 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 0.2 ppm, in 2017.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.068ppm

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2024

2024: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.068 ppm, in 2021, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. Its highest single sample was 0.083 ppm. In 2024, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in any of its two samples. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 0.11 ppm, in 2012.

What handles it

2 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Chromium (total)
  • Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

What handles it

A certification covers specific claims, not a whole standard. Look for these claims on the certifier’s listing, not the box. Wording varies a little: NSF writes “Lead Reduction,” WQA just “Lead.”

  • NSF/ANSI 53

    Claims: Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction, Lead Reduction

    For: Arsenic, Lead

    Other certifiers’ wording: Arsenic (III) (50 ppb influent level)

  • NSF/ANSI 58

    Claims: Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction, Uranium, Lead Reduction

    For: Arsenic, Uranium, Lead

    Other certifiers’ wording: Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=300 ppb Reduction; Arsenic (V) (300 ppb influent level)

At the tap, or for the whole house?

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Hardness

Moderately hard, typically 65 mg/L (3.8 grains per gallon), across 2 sampling points, 2020 to 2025.

Hardness is calcium and magnesium. EPA sets no limit for it: it shows up as scale on fixtures and in water heaters, and as soap that won’t lather. USGS calls water above 60 mg/L moderately hard, above 120 hard and above 180 very hard.

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Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Arsenic, uranium, nitrate, fluoride, chromium (total) and total trihalomethanes (TTHM) results here are California’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Cal Fire - Mountain Home Cnsrvtn Camp’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has the contaminants this page does not show.

  • Your own plumbing. Lead results are the 90th percentile across homes the utility samples. Your home’s service line, solder and fixtures decide yours. A certified lab test is the only way to know.

  • What it means for your health. This page reports what the records show and EPA’s limits and goals; it is not medical advice. If you are worried about a health effect, talk to a doctor or your local health department.

  • Anything after the latest data. SDWIS data is from 2026 Q3; UCMR 5 didn’t sample this utility; California’s results run from Jan. 23, 2020 to Oct. 23, 2025.

Testing your own tap

Cal Fire - Mountain Home Cnsrvtn Camp’s results are for the water it sends out. What your own service line, solder and fixtures add shows up only in a test of your tap, by a lab California certifies.

No lab California certifies is within 75 miles of the area Cal Fire - Mountain Home Cnsrvtn Camp serves on the state’s list. Some take samples by mail; the state’s page lists them all.

All 145 certified labs for California

Sources

PWSID CA5410800. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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