Orchard Water Assoc, WA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
About Orchard Water Assoc
Orchard Water Assoc serves about 165 people through 59 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Whatcom County, Washington. EPA system ID: WA5364150. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
That is down 3.6 ppb from 3.6 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Orchard Water Assoc is 3.6 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
How Orchard Water Assoc 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. Orchard Water Assoc's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 20th percentile in Washington and the 14th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
100 other systems share Whatcom County; 69 of them have a higher latest lead result than Orchard Water Assoc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bellingham-Water Division City Of | 141,127 | 3.4 ppb |
| Lynden Water Department | 20,062 | 2.3 ppb |
| Ferndale | 19,305 | 5.6 ppb |
| Lwwsd - South Shore Water System | 10,028 | 4.2 ppb |
| Birch Bay Water & Sewer District | 9,046 | 1.8 ppb |
| Blaine City Of | 6,800 | 1.6 ppb |
| Everson City Of | 3,893 | 2.1 ppb |
| Columbia Valley Water District | 2,648 | 1.5 ppb |
| Nooksack Water Dept | 2,427 | 0 (not detected) |
| Glacier Water District | 2,383 | 1.1 ppb |
Next steps for Ferndale, WA
Look up your address in Orchard Water Assoc'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 Orchard Water Assoc 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.