Meadow Park Water System, WA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Meadow Park Water System at a glance
Meadow Park Water System serves about 48 people through 13 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Grant County, Washington. EPA system ID: WA5305848. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
That is down 3.5 ppb from 5.5 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Meadow Park Water System is 5.5 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2 ppb |
| 2020 | 5.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.3 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Meadow Park Water System's 2 ppb sits at the 67th percentile in Washington and the 69th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Grant County
80 other systems share Grant County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Meadow Park Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Moses Lake City Of | 32,428 | 3.2 ppb |
| Ephrata Water Department | 8,718 | 0 (not detected) |
| Quincy Water Department City Of | 8,415 | 2.5 ppb |
| Mattawa City Of | 5,370 | 0 (not detected) |
| Warden City Of | 4,674 | 0 (not detected) |
| Royal City Water | 3,389 | 3 ppb |
| Desert Aire Owner Assn | 2,856 | 1 ppb |
| Soap Lake Water Dept | 2,399 | 0 (not detected) |
| Electric City City Of | 1,812 | 2.6 ppb |
| Sunland Estates Homeowners Assn | 1,480 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Yakima, WA
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 Meadow Park Water System 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.