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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
150 people
Connections
85
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Coupeville, WA
County
Island
Owner
Private
Hardness
Varies by source
The ZIP code it serves

98277

The short answer

2 results are above the health goal. The worst: Arsenic, above the health goal. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 2004 to 2025.

Arsenic, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), nitrate, chromium (total) and fluoride: Washington’s own results, samples taken from Aug. 26, 2020 to Oct. 7, 2025, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the health goal2

Arsenic

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

5.4ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2025

2025 average: 3.1 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 5.4 ppb, in 2022: below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. In 2025, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 3.1 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 2.8 ppb, in 2018.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction”

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the health goal

0.9ppb

90th percentile, 2023 to 2025

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 0.9 ppb, below EPA’s action level of 15 ppb. The action level drops to 10 ppb on Nov. 1, 2027. EPA’s health goal for lead is zero.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits5

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

56.4ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

2025: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 56.4 ppb, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

5.1ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 5.1 ppb, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. That was also the latest year on file.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.56ppm

Highest sample; found in 1 of 14

2025: not found

The highest sample, in 2022, was 0.56 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2025, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in any of its three samples.

What handles it

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

Chromium (total)

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

5.6ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2025

Averaged by year, the highest was 5.6 ppb, in 2025, below EPA’s legal limit of 100 ppb. That was also the latest year on file.

What handles it

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.17ppm

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2025

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.17 ppm, in 2025, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 0.39 ppm, in 2016.

What handles it

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.”

  • NSF/ANSI 53

    Claims: Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction, Lead Reduction

    For: Arsenic, Lead

    Other certifiers’ wording: Arsenic (III) (50 ppb influent level)

  • NSF/ANSI 58

    Claims: Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction, Lead Reduction

    For: Arsenic, Lead

    Other certifiers’ wording: Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=300 ppb Reduction; Arsenic (V) (300 ppb influent level)

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

Hard to very hard depending on the source, 170 to 210 mg/L (9.9 to 12.3 grains per gallon), across 2 sampling points, 2022 to 2025.

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, salt includedSoftener or salt-free conditioner?Washington water hardness, utility by utility

Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 3 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Arsenic, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), nitrate, chromium (total) and fluoride results here are Washington’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Wagon Wheel’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has 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. 26, 2020 to Oct. 7, 2025.

Testing your own tap

Wagon Wheel’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 Wagon Wheel serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Eurofins DW and WW West, Washington Laboratory

    Burlington, WA · about 18 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics, disinfection byproducts

    (360) 757-1400

  • Precision Analytical Laboratories, LLC

    Everett, WA · about 29 miles

    Certified for lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics

    (425) 740-4597

  • Everett Environmental Laboratory

    Everett, WA · about 31 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics

    (425) 257-8230

All 84 certified labs for Washington

Sources

PWSID WA5392070. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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