Skagit Co Water District #1, 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 Skagit Co Water District #1
Skagit Co Water District #1 serves about 1,974 people through 176 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Skagit County, Washington. EPA system ID: WA5300392. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Skagit Co Water District #1 is 1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 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. Skagit Co Water District #1's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 32nd percentile in Washington and the 31st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
38 other systems share Skagit County; 26 of them have a higher latest lead result than Skagit Co Water District #1. 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 |
| 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 |
| Del Mar Community Service | 657 | 1.1 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Skagit Co Water District #1'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 Skagit Co Water District #1 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.