Chelan Co Pud - Chelan Ridge, WA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.7 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. 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.
About Chelan Co Pud - Chelan Ridge
Chelan Co Pud - Chelan Ridge serves about 2,429 people through 45 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 groundwater, in Chelan County, Washington. EPA system ID: WA5300631. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Chelan Co Pud - Chelan Ridge's lead record
That is down 1.7 ppb from 2.4 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Chelan Co Pud - Chelan Ridge is 13.4 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2016 | 13.4 ppb over 10 |
Where this result ranks
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. Chelan Co Pud - Chelan Ridge's 0.7 ppb sits at the 43rd percentile in Washington and the 47th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
45 other systems share Chelan County; 17 of them have a higher latest lead result than Chelan Co Pud - Chelan Ridge. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Wenatchee City Of | 43,690 | 2 ppb |
| Chelan Co Pud 1 | 16,190 | 0 (not detected) |
| Leavenworth City Of | 11,041 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chelan Water Dept City Of | 9,425 | 3.2 ppb |
| Lake Chelan Reclamation District | 6,798 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cashmere Water Department | 5,815 | 5.8 ppb |
| Malaga Water District | 2,478 | 0 (not detected) |
| Alpine Water District | 2,255 | 0.8 ppb |
| Entiat City Of | 1,730 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chelan Co Pud1 - Peshastin | 1,397 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Wenatchee, WA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Wenatchee, 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 Chelan Co Pud - Chelan Ridge 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.