Tieton Hills Water Co, 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.
Who runs the water here
Tieton Hills Water Co serves about 75 people through 32 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Yakima County, Washington. EPA system ID: WA5388298. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Tieton Hills Water Co's lead record
That is down 2.6 ppb from 2.6 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Tieton Hills Water Co is 2.6 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.4 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. Tieton Hills Water Co'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
88 other systems share Yakima County; 35 of them have a higher latest lead result than Tieton Hills Water Co. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Yakima Water Division City Of | 112,858 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nob Hill Water Association | 38,050 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sunnyside City Of | 17,194 | 1.4 ppb |
| Toppenish Water Department | 13,382 | 0 (not detected) |
| Grandview City Of | 11,010 | 1.2 ppb |
| Selah City Of | 9,331 | 0 (not detected) |
| Yak Co - Terrace Heights | 8,410 | 0 (not detected) |
| Union Gap Water | 6,433 | 0 (not detected) |
| Moxee Water Department | 5,599 | 2.2 ppb |
| Wapato Waterworks | 5,255 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Tieton Hills Water Co'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 Tieton Hills Water Co 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.