Palomino Fields, WA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2023). 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.
Palomino Fields at a glance
Palomino Fields serves about 156 people through 78 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Kittitas County, Washington. EPA system ID: WA53AD362. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Palomino Fields's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Palomino Fields is 0 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Palomino Fields's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 19th percentile in Washington and the 13th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Kittitas County
36 other systems share Kittitas County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Palomino Fields. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ellensburg Water Dept | 20,900 | 1.5 ppb |
| Suncadia Resort | 2,640 | 13 ppb |
| Kittitas City Of | 2,247 | 1 ppb |
| Cle Elum Water Department | 2,213 | 0 (not detected) |
| Roslyn City Of | 2,099 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kittitas County Water District #5 | 700 | 0 (not detected) |
| South Cle Elum Water Dept | 541 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kittitas County Water District #4 | 510 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kittitas County Water District #7 | 463 | 0 (not detected) |
| Vantage Water System | 405 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Cle Elum, WA
Look up your address in Palomino Fields'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 Palomino Fields 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.