Vancouver City Of, WA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.2 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Who runs the water here
Vancouver City Of serves about 373,047 people through 113,388 service connections, which makes it a very large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Clark County, Washington. EPA system ID: WA5391200. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2020 (1.7 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Vancouver City Of is 2.2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.6 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. Vancouver City Of's 2.2 ppb sits at the 73rd percentile in Washington and the 75th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Clark County
24 other systems share Clark County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Vancouver City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Clark Public Utilities | 153,526 | 1.8 ppb |
| Camas Municipal Water Sewer System | 31,794 | 1.5 ppb |
| Battle Ground Water Dept City Of | 30,237 | 1.5 ppb |
| Washougal City Of | 21,441 | 2.7 ppb |
| Ridgefield Public Works | 21,225 | 2.1 ppb |
| Yacolt | 3,034 | 2.8 ppb |
| Amboy Clark Public Utilities | 991 | 1.2 ppb |
| Larch Corrections Center | 705 | 1 ppb |
| Country Manor Mobile Home Park | 450 | 0 (not detected) |
| Vista Del Rio Mobile Home Park | 352 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Vancouver, 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 Vancouver City Of 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.