Boots & Saddles 662, WA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.8 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Boots & Saddles 662 at a glance
Boots & Saddles 662 serves about 150 people through 39 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Pierce County, Washington. EPA system ID: WA5307730. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Boots & Saddles 662's lead record
That is down 15.2 ppb from 20 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Boots & Saddles 662 is 20 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 4.8 ppb |
| 2024 | 20 ppb over 15 |
| 2021 | 7.2 ppb |
| 2018 | 9.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 5.5 ppb |
How Boots & Saddles 662 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. Boots & Saddles 662's 4.8 ppb sits at the 91st percentile in Washington and the 90th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
226 other systems share Pierce County; 26 of them have a higher latest lead result than Boots & Saddles 662. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Tacoma Water Division City Of | 446,245 | 0 (not detected) |
| Puyallup City Of | 94,520 | 2.7 ppb |
| Lakewood Water District | 82,425 | 1.1 ppb |
| Southwood | 64,155 | 1.6 ppb |
| Bonney Lake Water Department City | 43,371 | 2.4 ppb |
| Firgrove Mutual Inc | 36,168 | 2.9 ppb |
| Jblm Lewis | 35,414 | 0 (not detected) |
| Spanaway Water Company | 34,506 | 2.4 ppb |
| Parkland Light & Water Company | 33,775 | 2.4 ppb |
| Fife Dept Of Public Works | 29,091 | 2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lacey, 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 Boots & Saddles 662 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. More in what a past exceedance means today.