Toutle River View, WA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2023). 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.
Who runs the water here
Toutle River View serves about 45 people through 19 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 Cowlitz County, Washington. EPA system ID: WA5388920. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
That is down 17 ppb from 18 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Toutle River View is 18 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 18 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 1 ppb |
Against other Washington systems
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. Toutle River View's 1 ppb sits at the 47th percentile in Washington and the 50th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Cowlitz County
30 other systems share Cowlitz County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than Toutle River View. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Longview Water Department | 57,617 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kelso City Of | 15,775 | 1 ppb |
| Beacon Hill Water & Sewer District | 11,969 | 0 (not detected) |
| Woodland City Of | 10,640 | 2.1 ppb |
| Kalama City Of | 8,020 | 1 ppb |
| Castle Rock Municipal Water | 4,367 | 5 ppb |
| Toutle Community Regional Water | 3,215 | 2 ppb |
| Carrolls Water Assn | 449 | 1.3 ppb |
| Ryderwood Improvement & Service As | 434 | 0.5 ppb |
| Lewis River Rv Park | 347 | 2.7 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Kelso, 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 Toutle River View 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.