Lacrosse Town Of, WA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.7 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2025). 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.
About Lacrosse Town Of
Lacrosse Town Of serves about 297 people through 195 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Whitman County, Washington. EPA system ID: WA5343400. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
That is down 6.7 ppb from 7.4 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lacrosse Town Of is 7.4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2023 | 7.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.5 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. Lacrosse Town Of's 0.7 ppb sits at the 42nd percentile in Washington and the 46th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
18 other systems share Whitman County; 13 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lacrosse Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Pullman Water Department City Of | 31,315 | 2.1 ppb |
| Washington State University | 21,506 | 4.9 ppb |
| Colfax Water Department City Of | 3,507 | 3.8 ppb |
| Palouse Water Dept City Of | 1,298 | 3.2 ppb |
| Tekoa City Of | 1,076 | 1.4 ppb |
| Rosalia Town Of | 831 | 3.8 ppb |
| St John Town Of | 800 | 2.2 ppb |
| Garfield Water Department | 694 | 0 (not detected) |
| Colton Water Department | 632 | 4.1 ppb |
| Albion Water Dept | 600 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Lacrosse, WA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lacrosse, 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 Lacrosse Town Of 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.