Briarwood Water System, WA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 8.7 ppb (monitoring period 2020-2022). 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.
Briarwood Water System at a glance
Briarwood Water System serves about 44 people through 20 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Island County, Washington. EPA system ID: WA5308324. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
That is up 4.7 ppb from 4 ppb in the period ending 2019. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Briarwood Water System is 8.7 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 8.7 ppb |
| 2019 | 4 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
Against other Washington systems
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. Briarwood Water System's 8.7 ppb sits at the 96th percentile in Washington and the 96th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
232 other systems share Island County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Briarwood Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Oak Harbor City Of | 23,675 | 1.2 ppb |
| Naval Air Station/Whidbey Island | 16,595 | 3.4 ppb |
| Coupeville Town Of | 4,142 | 3.5 ppb |
| Camano Water Association | 2,592 | 1 ppb |
| Clinton Water District | 1,980 | 9.8 ppb |
| Langley City Of | 1,416 | 1.9 ppb |
| Harbor Hills Community Water System | 1,373 | 3 ppb |
| Freeland Water And Sewer District | 1,264 | 0 (not detected) |
| W&B Waterworks 1 | 1,112 | 1.3 ppb |
| Camano Co-Op Water & Power Co | 1,071 | 9.5 ppb |
Next steps for Freeland, WA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Freeland, 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 Briarwood Water System whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1837 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.