Pressentin Creek Wilderness, WA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 16.9 ppb (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. 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.
Pressentin Creek Wilderness at a glance
Pressentin Creek Wilderness serves about 81 people through 58 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Skagit County, Washington. EPA system ID: WA5369273. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
That is up 2.6 ppb from 14.3 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pressentin Creek Wilderness is 16.9 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 16.9 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 14.3 ppb over 10 |
| 2019 | 8.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.2 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. Pressentin Creek Wilderness's 16.9 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Washington and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Skagit County
38 other systems share Skagit County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pressentin Creek Wilderness. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Skagit County Pud 1 Judy Res | 111,415 | 0 (not detected) |
| Anacortes City Of | 25,109 | 1.1 ppb |
| Shelter Bay Community Inc | 2,212 | 1.6 ppb |
| Skagit Co Water District #1 | 1,974 | 0 (not detected) |
| La Conner Water Dept | 1,821 | 0 (not detected) |
| Blanchard Edison Water Assn. Inc. | 1,480 | 2.8 ppb |
| Concrete Utilities | 1,234 | 1.8 ppb |
| Samish Farms Water Assn | 1,017 | 5.3 ppb |
| Cape Horn Maintenance Company | 940 | 1.4 ppb |
| Lyman Water Department | 705 | 3.1 ppb |
Next steps for Concrete, WA
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 Pressentin Creek Wilderness 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.