College Place Water Dept, WA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.1 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.
Who runs the water here
College Place Water Dept serves about 8,147 people through 3,537 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Walla Walla County, Washington. EPA system ID: WA5314050. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.6 ppb from 0.5 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for College Place Water Dept is 2.1 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2020 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.7 ppb |
How College Place Water Dept 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. College Place Water Dept's 2.1 ppb sits at the 72nd percentile in Washington and the 74th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
32 other systems share Walla Walla County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than College Place Water Dept. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Walla Walla Water Division | 42,959 | 4.4 ppb |
| Snake River Housing Water System | 3,036 | 0 (not detected) |
| Waitsburg City Of | 1,817 | 1.7 ppb |
| Consolidated Irrigation Dist 14 | 1,555 | 0 (not detected) |
| Walla Walla University | 1,273 | 0 (not detected) |
| Valle Lindo Homes | 787 | 0 (not detected) |
| Veterans Affair Med Ctr Dept Of | 785 | 1 ppb |
| Great Basin Water Burbank | 656 | 0 (not detected) |
| Green Tank Irr District 11 | 553 | 0.6 ppb |
| Burbank Irrigation District 4 | 527 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for College Place, WA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; College Place, 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 College Place Water Dept 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.