Mill A Water Co, WA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Mill A Water Co at a glance
Mill A Water Co serves about 278 people through 80 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Skamania County, Washington. EPA system ID: WA5354680. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Mill A Water Co's lead record
That is down 1.3 ppb from 1.3 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mill A Water Co is 1.3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2017 | 1 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. Mill A Water Co's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 24th percentile in Washington and the 18th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
12 other systems share Skamania County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mill A Water Co. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Stevenson Water Dept | 4,702 | 2.1 ppb |
| Carson | 3,015 | 1.5 ppb |
| North Bonneville City Of | 1,048 | 3.1 ppb |
| Underwood | 1,000 | 8.5 ppb |
| Home Valley Water District | 500 | 1.2 ppb |
| Skamania Landing Owners Assn | 132 | 28.4 ppb |
| Duggan Falls | 100 | 2.6 ppb |
| Mountain View | 72 | 0 (not detected) |
| Maple Hill Water Services | 62 | 3 ppb |
| Wind River Community | 44 | 0.9 ppb |
Next steps for Willard, WA
Look up your address in Mill A Water Co's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Mill A Water Co 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.