Strawberry Hill, WA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Strawberry Hill at a glance
Strawberry Hill serves about 235 people through 94 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 Kitsap County, Washington. EPA system ID: WA5384625. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
That is down 4 ppb from 7 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Strawberry Hill is 16 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 ppb |
| 2024 | 7 ppb |
| 2023 | 4 ppb |
| 2020 | 10.5 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 16 ppb over 15 |
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. Strawberry Hill's 3 ppb sits at the 81st percentile in Washington and the 81st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
149 other systems share Kitsap County; 24 of them have a higher latest lead result than Strawberry Hill. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bremerton City Of | 72,951 | 5 ppb |
| Silverdale Water Dist 16 | 35,163 | 2 ppb |
| West Sound Utility District #1 | 28,930 | 1 ppb |
| North Perry Ave Water District | 24,402 | 1 ppb |
| Poulsbo City Of | 18,400 | 1 ppb |
| Naval Base Kitsap At Bangor | 16,828 | 3 ppb |
| North Peninsula | 16,449 | 2 ppb |
| Port Orchard Water Dept | 15,355 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bainbridge Island City Of | 13,491 | 3 ppb |
| Naval Base Kitsap At Bremerton | 11,792 | 2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Poulsbo, 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 Strawberry Hill 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.