Saratoga Beach Owners Assn, WA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
About Saratoga Beach Owners Assn
Saratoga Beach Owners Assn serves about 425 people through 213 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Island County, Washington. EPA system ID: WA5376240. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.5 ppb from 1.5 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Saratoga Beach Owners Assn is 2.4 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.4 ppb |
How Saratoga Beach Owners Assn 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. Saratoga Beach Owners Assn's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 27th percentile in Washington and the 21st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
232 other systems share Island County; 171 of them have a higher latest lead result than Saratoga Beach Owners Assn. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Oak Harbor City Of | 23,675 | 1.2 ppb |
| Naval Air Station/Whidbey Island | 16,595 | 3.4 ppb |
| Coupeville Town Of | 4,142 | 3.5 ppb |
| Camano Water Association | 2,592 | 1 ppb |
| Clinton Water District | 1,980 | 9.8 ppb |
| Langley City Of | 1,416 | 1.9 ppb |
| Harbor Hills Community Water System | 1,373 | 3 ppb |
| Freeland Water And Sewer District | 1,264 | 0 (not detected) |
| W&B Waterworks 1 | 1,112 | 1.3 ppb |
| Camano Co-Op Water & Power Co | 1,071 | 9.5 ppb |
Next steps for Freeland, WA
Look up your address in Saratoga Beach Owners Assn'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 Saratoga Beach Owners Assn 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.