Deep Creek Ranchettes, WA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Deep Creek Ranchettes at a glance
Deep Creek Ranchettes serves about 200 people through 49 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Spokane County, Washington. EPA system ID: WA5339003. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Deep Creek Ranchettes's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0.7 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Deep Creek Ranchettes is 8 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 8 ppb |
How Deep Creek Ranchettes 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. Deep Creek Ranchettes's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 22nd percentile in Washington and the 15th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Spokane County
86 other systems share Spokane County; 54 of them have a higher latest lead result than Deep Creek Ranchettes. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Spokane City Of | 346,138 | 2 ppb |
| Whitworth Water District 2 | 26,883 | 1.3 ppb |
| Vera Water & Power | 24,692 | 20.8 ppb |
| Consolidated Irrig Dist 19 System 2 | 21,220 | 1.3 ppb |
| Spo Co Water Dist 3 Sys 1 | 19,035 | 1.6 ppb |
| Modern Electric Water Co | 18,487 | 0 (not detected) |
| Eastern Washington University | 17,108 | 6.5 ppb |
| Cheney City Of | 16,954 | 1.3 ppb |
| Liberty Lake Sewer & Water District | 14,500 | 1.5 ppb |
| Fairchild Air Force Base | 9,544 | 4.2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Deep Creek Ranchettes's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Deep Creek Ranchettes 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.