Firstfruits Farms, WA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Firstfruits Farms
Firstfruits Farms serves about 68 people through 10 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Walla Walla County, Washington. EPA system ID: WA5308690. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Firstfruits Farms's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Firstfruits Farms is 18 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 4 ppb |
| 2023 | 3 ppb |
| 2017 | 18 ppb over 15 |
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. Firstfruits Farms's 4 ppb sits at the 87th percentile in Washington and the 87th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
32 other systems share Walla Walla County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Firstfruits Farms. 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 |
| College Place Water Dept | 8,147 | 2.1 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 |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Yakima, 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 Firstfruits Farms 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.