Burley Water Assn, WA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.5 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
About Burley Water Assn
Burley Water Assn serves about 50 people through 26 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Kitsap County, Washington. EPA system ID: WA5309450. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
That is down 2.3 ppb from 2.8 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Burley Water Assn is 47.5 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 47.5 ppb over 15 |
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. Burley Water Assn's 0.5 ppb sits at the 36th percentile in Washington and the 43rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
149 other systems share Kitsap County; 90 of them have a higher latest lead result than Burley Water Assn. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bremerton City Of | 72,951 | 5 ppb |
| Silverdale Water Dist 16 | 35,163 | 2 ppb |
| West Sound Utility District #1 | 28,930 | 1 ppb |
| North Perry Ave Water District | 24,402 | 1 ppb |
| Poulsbo City Of | 18,400 | 1 ppb |
| Naval Base Kitsap At Bangor | 16,828 | 3 ppb |
| North Peninsula | 16,449 | 2 ppb |
| Port Orchard Water Dept | 15,355 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bainbridge Island City Of | 13,491 | 3 ppb |
| Naval Base Kitsap At Bremerton | 11,792 | 2 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Port Orchard, 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 Burley Water Assn 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.