Washington Soldiers Home Colony, WA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.7 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 Washington Soldiers Home Colony
Washington Soldiers Home Colony serves about 643 people through 46 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by the state and draws groundwater, in Pierce County, Washington. EPA system ID: WA5364700. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2.3 ppb from 7 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Washington Soldiers Home Colony is 21 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 7 ppb |
| 2016 | 21 ppb over 15 |
How Washington Soldiers Home Colony 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. Washington Soldiers Home Colony's 4.7 ppb sits at the 91st percentile in Washington and the 90th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
226 other systems share Pierce County; 27 of them have a higher latest lead result than Washington Soldiers Home Colony. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Tacoma Water Division City Of | 446,245 | 0 (not detected) |
| Puyallup City Of | 94,520 | 2.7 ppb |
| Lakewood Water District | 82,425 | 1.1 ppb |
| Southwood | 64,155 | 1.6 ppb |
| Bonney Lake Water Department City | 43,371 | 2.4 ppb |
| Firgrove Mutual Inc | 36,168 | 2.9 ppb |
| Jblm Lewis | 35,414 | 0 (not detected) |
| Spanaway Water Company | 34,506 | 2.4 ppb |
| Parkland Light & Water Company | 33,775 | 2.4 ppb |
| Fife Dept Of Public Works | 29,091 | 2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Port Orchard, 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 Washington Soldiers Home Colony 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. More in what a past exceedance means today.