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Rancho del Paradiso - Cal Water Svc (Puc)

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
110 people
Connections
61
Water source
Groundwater bought from another system
Based in
San Jose, CA
County
Sonoma
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

95465

The short answer

1 result is above EPA’s legal limit. The worst: Copper, above the action level. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 2021 to 2024.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and haloacetic acids (HAA5): California’s own results, samples taken from Nov. 29, 2022 to Nov. 7, 2025, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the legal limit1

Copper

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the action level

1.6ppm

90th percentile, 2022 to 2024

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 1.6 ppm, above EPA’s action level of 1.3 ppm.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits2

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

21ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2025

2025, one sample: 14.1 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 21 ppb, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, its one sample was 14.1 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 16 ppb, in 2016.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

3.2ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2025

2025, one sample: 2.5 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 3.2 ppb, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, its one sample was 2.5 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 4.5 ppb, in 2016.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

One compound tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Lead

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.”

At the tap, or for the whole house?

Lead and copper usually come from pipes and fixtures inside or near your home. A whole-house system sits where water enters, so it cannot catch what your own plumbing adds after it. For those, the filter that counts is the one at the tap. How whole-house systems compare.

Filters with those claims on a certifier’s listing

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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. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and haloacetic acids (HAA5) results here are California’s own from 2022 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Rancho del Paradiso - Cal Water Svc (Puc)’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 Nov. 29, 2022 to Nov. 7, 2025.

Testing your own tap

Rancho del Paradiso - Cal Water Svc (Puc)’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 Rancho del Paradiso - Cal Water Svc (Puc) serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • K Prime, LLC.

    Santa Rosa, CA · about 15 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, PFAS

    (707) 527-7574

  • Brelje and Race Laboratories, Inc.

    Santa Rosa, CA · about 18 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts

    (707) 544-8807

  • Sonoma County Public Health Laboratory

    Santa Rosa, CA · about 19 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (707) 565-4711

All 145 certified labs for California

Sources

PWSID CA4900514. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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