Elma Evergreen Village, WA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.8 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Elma Evergreen Village at a glance
Elma Evergreen Village serves about 29 people through 12 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Grays Harbor County, Washington. EPA system ID: WA5324155. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Elma Evergreen Village's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (3.8 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Elma Evergreen Village is 3.8 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.1 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. Elma Evergreen Village's 3.8 ppb sits at the 86th percentile in Washington and the 86th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
34 other systems share Grays Harbor County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Elma Evergreen Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Aberdeen City Of | 22,867 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hoquiam Water Department | 11,456 | 1.2 ppb |
| Ocean Shores Water Dept | 9,347 | 0 (not detected) |
| Elma City Of | 6,638 | 1.4 ppb |
| Montesano City Of | 6,204 | 3.6 ppb |
| Westport Water Department | 5,346 | 2.9 ppb |
| Grays Harbor Co Water Dist 2 | 5,112 | 6.4 ppb |
| Mccleary City Of | 2,753 | 2 ppb |
| Pacific Beach/Moclips | 2,372 | 2.1 ppb |
| Cosmopolis Water Department | 1,812 | 1.2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Shelton, 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 Elma Evergreen Village 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.