Smith Road Water Association, 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.
Who runs the water here
Smith Road Water Association serves about 77 people through 36 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Whatcom County, Washington. EPA system ID: WA5380550. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Smith Road Water Association's lead record
That is down 3.8 ppb from 3.8 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Smith Road Water Association is 3.8 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2018 | 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. Smith Road Water Association's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 11th percentile in Washington and the 7th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
100 other systems share Whatcom County; 69 of them have a higher latest lead result than Smith Road Water Association. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bellingham-Water Division City Of | 141,127 | 3.4 ppb |
| Lynden Water Department | 20,062 | 2.3 ppb |
| Ferndale | 19,305 | 5.6 ppb |
| Lwwsd - South Shore Water System | 10,028 | 4.2 ppb |
| Birch Bay Water & Sewer District | 9,046 | 1.8 ppb |
| Blaine City Of | 6,800 | 1.6 ppb |
| Everson City Of | 3,893 | 2.1 ppb |
| Columbia Valley Water District | 2,648 | 1.5 ppb |
| Nooksack Water Dept | 2,427 | 0 (not detected) |
| Glacier Water District | 2,383 | 1.1 ppb |
Next steps for Bellingham, WA
Look up your address in Smith Road Water Association'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 Smith Road Water Association 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.