Vera Water & Power, WA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 20.8 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. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
Vera Water & Power at a glance
Vera Water & Power serves about 24,692 people through 12,078 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Spokane County, Washington. EPA system ID: WA5391450. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Vera Water & Power's lead record
That is up 19.5 ppb from 1.3 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Vera Water & Power is 20.8 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 20.8 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 1 ppb |
How Vera Water & Power 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. Vera Water & Power's 20.8 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in Washington and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
86 other systems share Spokane County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Vera Water & Power. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Spokane City Of | 346,138 | 2 ppb |
| Whitworth Water District 2 | 26,883 | 1.3 ppb |
| Consolidated Irrig Dist 19 System 2 | 21,220 | 1.3 ppb |
| Spo Co Water Dist 3 Sys 1 | 19,035 | 1.6 ppb |
| Modern Electric Water Co | 18,487 | 0 (not detected) |
| Eastern Washington University | 17,108 | 6.5 ppb |
| Cheney City Of | 16,954 | 1.3 ppb |
| Liberty Lake Sewer & Water District | 14,500 | 1.5 ppb |
| Fairchild Air Force Base | 9,544 | 4.2 ppb |
| Airway Heights City Of | 9,489 | 11.1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Vera Water & Power 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.