Veterans Affair Med Ctr Dept Of, WA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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 Veterans Affair Med Ctr Dept Of
Veterans Affair Med Ctr Dept Of serves about 785 people through 67 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is federally owned and draws groundwater, in Walla Walla County, Washington. EPA system ID: WA5390542. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Veterans Affair Med Ctr Dept Of is 41.5 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 41.5 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2016 | 9 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. Veterans Affair Med Ctr Dept Of's 1 ppb sits at the 50th percentile in Washington and the 53rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
32 other systems share Walla Walla County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than Veterans Affair Med Ctr Dept Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Walla Walla Water Division | 42,959 | 4.4 ppb |
| College Place Water Dept | 8,147 | 2.1 ppb |
| Snake River Housing Water System | 3,036 | 0 (not detected) |
| Waitsburg City Of | 1,817 | 1.7 ppb |
| Consolidated Irrigation Dist 14 | 1,555 | 0 (not detected) |
| Walla Walla University | 1,273 | 0 (not detected) |
| Valle Lindo Homes | 787 | 0 (not detected) |
| Great Basin Water Burbank | 656 | 0 (not detected) |
| Green Tank Irr District 11 | 553 | 0.6 ppb |
| Burbank Irrigation District 4 | 527 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Yakima, WA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Yakima, 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 Veterans Affair Med Ctr Dept 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.