Badger Mountain Irrigation District, WA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.8 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Badger Mountain Irrigation District at a glance
Badger Mountain Irrigation District serves about 2,331 people through 914 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Benton County, Washington. EPA system ID: WA5322617. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.7 ppb from 1.1 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Badger Mountain Irrigation District is 2.8 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.7 ppb |
How Badger Mountain Irrigation District compares
Of the 2,218 Washington systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1 ppb; 18 are over 15 ppb right now and 62 have gone over at some point. Badger Mountain Irrigation District's 2.8 ppb sits at the 79th percentile in Washington and the 80th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
42 other systems share Benton County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Badger Mountain Irrigation District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Kennewick City Of | 118,164 | 0 (not detected) |
| Richland City Of | 106,499 | 2.4 ppb |
| West Richland City Of | 21,231 | 0 (not detected) |
| Prosser City Of | 8,030 | 0 (not detected) |
| Benton City Water | 5,626 | 0 (not detected) |
| Summit View Water System | 1,869 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bc Water Co | 1,262 | 0 (not detected) |
| Community Sewer And Water District | 1,200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oasis Water Corporation | 556 | 0 (not detected) |
| Great Basin Water Kiona | 520 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Kennewick, WA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Kennewick, WA 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 Badger Mountain Irrigation District 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.