Valley View Water Assoc, WA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.7 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. 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.
About Valley View Water Assoc
Valley View Water Assoc serves about 185 people through 90 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: WA5391000. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (1.4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Valley View Water Assoc is 15.1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2016 | 15.1 ppb over 15 |
How Valley View Water Assoc compares
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. Valley View Water Assoc's 1.7 ppb sits at the 63rd percentile in Washington and the 66th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Whatcom County
100 other systems share Whatcom County; 38 of them have a higher latest lead result than Valley View Water Assoc. 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 |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lynden, 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 Valley View Water Assoc 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.