Louella Heights, WA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2019-2021). 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.
Louella Heights at a glance
Louella Heights serves about 28 people through 21 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Clallam County, Washington. EPA system ID: WA5300585. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2018 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Louella Heights is 1 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
How Louella Heights 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. Louella Heights's 1 ppb sits at the 46th percentile in Washington and the 50th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
61 other systems share Clallam County; 30 of them have a higher latest lead result than Louella Heights. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Port Angeles City Of | 28,067 | 2 ppb |
| Sequim City Of | 14,293 | 2.1 ppb |
| Port Angeles Composite | 8,872 | 1.6 ppb |
| Forks Municipal Water Dept | 3,468 | 2 ppb |
| Dry Creek Water Association | 3,030 | 5 ppb |
| West Sequim Bay Inc | 2,759 | 1 ppb |
| Crescent Water Assn | 2,360 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sunland Water District | 2,235 | 5 ppb |
| Clallam Bay Sekiu | 1,719 | 1.8 ppb |
| Evergreen Clallam County Pud 1 | 1,694 | 2.3 ppb |
Next steps for Sequim, WA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Sequim, 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 Louella Heights 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.