Creekside Village

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: 300 people
Connections: 131
Water source: Groundwater
Based in: Penn Valley, CA
County: Nevada
Owner: Private
Hardness: Very hard

The ZIP code it serves

95946

The short answer

Nothing in EPA’s and California’s records for this utility is above a health goal. That covers nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals, plus lead and copper, not everything. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What was found

Nitrate, arsenic, chromium (total), fluoride and uranium: California’s own results, samples taken from Jan. 8, 2020 to Jan. 28, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Below EPA’s limits1

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

2.6ppm

Highest sample; found in 7 of 7

2026, one sample: 1.7 ppm

The highest sample, in 2025, was 2.6 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2026, the latest year on file, its one sample was 1.7 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 2.4 ppm, in 2018.

What handles it

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

5 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.

Arsenic
Chromium (total)
Fluoride
Lead
Uranium

Hardness

Very hard, 206 mg/L (12 grains per gallon), at its one sampling point, 2020 to 2026.

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.

Softeners compared at 12 grains per gallon, salt included Softener or salt-free conditioner?California water hardness, utility by utility

Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There is 1 monitoring or reporting violation: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

Everything else. Nitrate, arsenic, chromium (total), fluoride and uranium results here are California’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Creekside Village’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. 8, 2020 to Jan. 28, 2026.

Testing your own tap

Creekside Village’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.

The 3 labs California certifies closest to the area Creekside Village serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

Cranmer Engineering, Inc.
Grass Valley, CA · about 8 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics
(530) 273-7284
Onterris Laboratories, LLC
El Dorado Hills, CA · about 40 miles
Certified for organic chemicals, PFAS
(916) 673-1520
Ceres Analytical Laboratory, Inc.
El Dorado Hills, CA · about 41 miles
Certified for organic chemicals
(916) 932-5011