Parkwood Apartments, WA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 21.8 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
Parkwood Apartments at a glance
Parkwood Apartments serves about 60 people through 20 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Thurston County, Washington. EPA system ID: WA5318160. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
That is up 15 ppb from 6.8 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Parkwood Apartments is 21.8 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 21.8 ppb over 15 |
| 2023 | 6.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 7.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 9.8 ppb |
How Parkwood Apartments 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. Parkwood Apartments's 21.8 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in Washington and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
195 other systems share Thurston County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Parkwood Apartments. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Olympia City Of | 126,966 | 3.4 ppb |
| Lacey Water Department | 105,178 | 6 ppb |
| Tumwater City Of | 51,924 | 8 ppb |
| Yelm City Of | 17,355 | 1.9 ppb |
| Tanglewilde Thompson Place 600 | 7,900 | 2.8 ppb |
| Pattison 500 | 4,643 | 3.1 ppb |
| Grand Mound | 3,764 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tenino City Of | 3,336 | 9 ppb |
| Rainier Water Department | 3,103 | 3.4 ppb |
| Meadows 690 | 3,100 | 5.9 ppb |
What to do in your house
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Parkwood Apartments 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.