Stevens Co Pud - Suncrest, WA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.4 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. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
About Stevens Co Pud - Suncrest
Stevens Co Pud - Suncrest serves about 7,484 people through 2,205 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Stevens County, Washington. EPA system ID: WA5385202. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.4 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Stevens Co Pud - Suncrest is 1.9 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.9 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. Stevens Co Pud - Suncrest's 1.4 ppb sits at the 58th percentile in Washington and the 62nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
32 other systems share Stevens County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Stevens Co Pud - Suncrest. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Colville Water Department | 4,945 | 1.1 ppb |
| Stevens Co Pud - Deer Lake | 2,884 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kettle Falls Water Dept | 2,698 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chewelah Water Dept South | 2,615 | 3.1 ppb |
| Stevens Co Pud - Loon Lake | 2,487 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stevens Co Pud - Waitts Lake | 1,216 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stevens Co Pud - Clayton | 725 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stevens Co Pud - Valley | 550 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chewelah Water Dept North | 350 | 1.4 ppb |
| Springdale Town Of | 315 | 0.7 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Loon Lake, WA may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Stevens Co Pud - Suncrest 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.