River View Shores Water System, WA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
River View Shores Water System at a glance
River View Shores Water System serves about 58 people through 59 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Pend Oreille County, Washington. EPA system ID: WA5372807. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for River View Shores Water System is 1.1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.1 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. River View Shores Water System's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 8th percentile in Washington and the 5th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
14 other systems share Pend Oreille County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than River View Shores Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Newport City Of | 3,331 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ione Water Dept | 2,395 | 1.2 ppb |
| Diamond Lake Water & Sewer District | 1,299 | 2.2 ppb |
| Cusick Town Of | 672 | 3.2 ppb |
| Metaline Falls Town Of | 593 | 0 (not detected) |
| Metaline Water Dept | 193 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chippewa Water District | 185 | 0 (not detected) |
| River Bend Water System | 140 | 0.5 ppb |
| Sandy Shore & Sunnyside Meadows | 83 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lenora Water And Sewer District | 75 | 2 ppb |
Next steps for Newport, WA
Look up your address in River View Shores Water System'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 River View Shores Water System 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.