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Meadowmeer

What EPA’s and Washington’s records show in this utility’s water: nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals; lead and copper; and violations since 2016, with the certification that handles each result.

Serves
1,157 people
Connections
314
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Port Orchard, WA
County
Kitsap
Owner
Private
Hardness
Moderately hard
The ZIP code it serves

98110

The short answer

1 result is above EPA’s legal limit. The worst: Lead, above the action level. 1 health-based violation since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 2008 to 2023.

Copper: EPA’s file records a utility’s copper only when it exceeds the action level. The last here was 3.1 ppm, for the period ending May 12, 1998. None since is on file, so it is not counted as a current finding.

Nitrate, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), arsenic, chromium (total), fluoride and haloacetic acids (HAA5): Washington’s own results, samples taken from Aug. 27, 2020 to June 9, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Uranium: EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from Jan. 2, 2018 to Jan. 2, 2018. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Above the legal limit1

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the action level

16ppb

90th percentile, 2021 to 2023

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 16 ppb, above EPA’s action level of 15 ppb. The action level drops to 10 ppb on Nov. 1, 2027, and this result is at or above that. EPA’s health goal for lead is zero.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits2

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.63ppm

Highest sample; found in 4 of 16

2026 average: 0.27 ppm

The highest sample, in 2025, was 0.63 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2026, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 0.27 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 0.8 ppm, in 2017.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

4.3ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

2025, one sample: 2.8 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 4.3 ppb, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 4.5 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, its one sample was 2.8 ppb.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
5 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Chromium (total)
  • Fluoride
  • Haloacetic acids (HAA5)
  • Uranium

What handles it

A certification covers specific claims, not a whole standard. Look for these claims on the certifier’s listing, not the box. Wording varies a little: NSF writes “Lead Reduction,” WQA just “Lead.”

At the tap, or for the whole house?

Lead and copper usually come from pipes and fixtures inside or near your home. A whole-house system sits where water enters, so it cannot catch what your own plumbing adds after it. For those, the filter that counts is the one at the tap. How whole-house systems compare.

Filters with those claims on a certifier’s listing

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Hardness

Moderately hard, 95 mg/L (5.6 grains per gallon), at its one sampling point, in 2022.

Hardness is calcium and magnesium. EPA sets no limit for it: it shows up as scale on fixtures and in water heaters, and as soap that won’t lather. USGS calls water above 60 mg/L moderately hard, above 120 hard and above 180 very hard.

Softeners compared at 5.6 grains per gallon, salt includedSoftener or salt-free conditioner?Washington water hardness, utility by utility

Violations since 2016

Contaminant or ruleTypePeriodMeasuredStatus
Lead and Copper RuleRequired information about lead was not given to customers.EPA: Public EducationMarch 31, 2025—Resolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 7 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Nitrate, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), arsenic, chromium (total), fluoride and haloacetic acids (HAA5) results here are Washington’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Uranium comes from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. Meadowmeer’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has newer results for those and the contaminants this page does not show.

  • Your own plumbing. Lead results are the 90th percentile across homes the utility samples. Your home’s service line, solder and fixtures decide yours. A certified lab test is the only way to know.

  • What it means for your health. This page reports what the records show and EPA’s limits and goals; it is not medical advice. If you are worried about a health effect, talk to a doctor or your local health department.

  • Anything after the latest data. SDWIS data is from 2026 Q3; UCMR 5 didn’t sample this utility; Washington’s results run from Aug. 27, 2020 to June 9, 2026; EPA’s compliance samples are from Jan. 2, 2018 to Jan. 2, 2018.

Testing your own tap

Meadowmeer’s results are for the water it sends out. What your own service line, solder and fixtures add shows up only in a test of your tap, by a lab Washington certifies.

The 3 labs Washington certifies closest to the area Meadowmeer serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Eurofins EPK Built Environment Testing, LLC

    Seattle, WA · about 8 miles

    Certified for bacteria, asbestos

    (206) 781-0155

  • Spectra Laboratories - Kitsap, LLC

    Poulsbo, WA · about 9 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

    (360) 779-5141

  • MCL Food Testing

    Seattle, WA · about 9 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (206) 633-3637

All 84 certified labs for Washington

Sources

PWSID WA5353275. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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