Dallesport Domestic Water Sharers, WA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.2 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.
Dallesport Domestic Water Sharers at a glance
Dallesport Domestic Water Sharers serves about 32 people through 14 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Klickitat County, Washington. EPA system ID: WA5315077. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Dallesport Domestic Water Sharers's lead record
Against the period ending 2019 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Dallesport Domestic Water Sharers is 1.2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 1 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. Dallesport Domestic Water Sharers's 1.2 ppb sits at the 53rd percentile in Washington and the 58th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
22 other systems share Klickitat County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Dallesport Domestic Water Sharers. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Goldendale City Of | 4,314 | 1.8 ppb |
| White Salmon City Of | 4,077 | 5.3 ppb |
| Bingen Water Dept | 1,758 | 0 (not detected) |
| Glacier Springs Water Assn | 992 | 4.2 ppb |
| Lyle Water System | 938 | 1 ppb |
| Glenwood Water System | 629 | 1 ppb |
| Wishram Water System | 599 | 1 ppb |
| Dallesport Water District | 598 | 0 (not detected) |
| Klickitat Water System | 551 | 6 ppb |
| Ponderosa Park Water System | 381 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Dallesport, 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 Dallesport Domestic Water Sharers 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.