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Ponderosa Community Club Inc, WA

Exceeded the action level in the past

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.9 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.

About Ponderosa Community Club Inc

Ponderosa Community Club Inc serves about 1,170 people through 582 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Chelan County, Washington. EPA system ID: WA5368417. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.

Ponderosa Community Club Inc's lead record

That is down 1.4 ppb from 4.3 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Ponderosa Community Club Inc is 15.8 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.

Period ending90th-percentile lead
20252.9 ppb
20244.3 ppb
20231 ppb
20192.3 ppb
201715.8 ppb over 15

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. Ponderosa Community Club Inc's 2.9 ppb sits at the 80th percentile in Washington and the 80th nationally (higher means more lead).

Other water systems in Chelan County

45 other systems share Chelan County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Ponderosa Community Club Inc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.

SystemPeopleLatest lead
Wenatchee City Of43,6902 ppb
Chelan Co Pud 116,1900 (not detected)
Leavenworth City Of11,0410 (not detected)
Chelan Water Dept City Of9,4253.2 ppb
Lake Chelan Reclamation District6,7980 (not detected)
Cashmere Water Department5,8155.8 ppb
Malaga Water District2,4780 (not detected)
Chelan Co Pud - Chelan Ridge2,4290.7 ppb
Alpine Water District2,2550.8 ppb
Entiat City Of1,7300 (not detected)

Next steps for Leavenworth, WA

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Leavenworth, 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 Ponderosa Community Club Inc 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.