Avion Wc - Highland Estates, OR
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Avion Wc - Highland Estates at a glance
Avion Wc - Highland Estates serves about 75 people through 27 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Deschutes County, Oregon. EPA system ID: OR4101346; phone on file: 541-948-6676. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Avion Wc - Highland Estates's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Avion Wc - Highland Estates is 1 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 1 ppb |
Where this result ranks
Of the 909 Oregon systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1 ppb; 15 are over 15 ppb right now and 71 have gone over at some point. Avion Wc - Highland Estates's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 11th percentile in Oregon and the 7th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
65 other systems share Deschutes County; 30 of them have a higher latest lead result than Avion Wc - Highland Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bend, City Of | 77,704 | 0 (not detected) |
| Redmond Water Department | 38,208 | 0.45 ppb |
| Avion Wc - Greater Avion | 35,332 | 0 (not detected) |
| Roats Water System | 6,469 | 0.95 ppb |
| Sunriver Water Llc/Sunriver Utilities | 4,300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sisters, City Of | 3,778 | 1.2 ppb |
| Agate Water System | 3,153 | 0 (not detected) |
| La Pine, City Of | 2,807 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oregon Water Utilities - Cline Butte Inc | 2,526 | 0 (not detected) |
| Water Wonderland Improv Dist 2 | 1,800 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Avion Wc - Highland Estates's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Avion Wc - Highland Estates 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.