Community Water System · PWSID WA5369008

Portland Fair Estates

Serves 130 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateFriday Harbor, Washington
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On record since 2016: 16 violations. 6 over the limit · 7 missed or late tests · 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-01.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

6Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
7Missed or late test
3Notice or report

More violations on record than 86% of active water systems in Washington. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2005201020152016 · Missed or late test: 12016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Notice or report: 120202023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Over the limit: 32024 · Over the limit: 32024 · Over the limit: 32024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22025 · Over the limit: 32025 · Over the limit: 32025 · Over the limit: 32025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
38% over the limit · 644% missed or late test · 719% notice or report · 3

Across Washington, 88% of violations are missed or late tests and 3% are water over a limit.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

2 ppb
1.5 ppb
0.7 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 109.93 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  3. 2025-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 107.65 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2025-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 105.58 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 96.30 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 95.10 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2024-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 99.45 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2024-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2024-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2023-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2023-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2023-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  13. 2023-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  15. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  16. 2016-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance

System details

Population served130
Service connections52
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityFriday Harbor
EPA ZIP on file98250

Areas served

  • San Juan County

Reading this record

Portland Fair Estates is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 130 people in Friday Harbor, Washington. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.