Avion Wc - Klippel, OR
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
About Avion Wc - Klippel
Avion Wc - Klippel serves about 80 people through 28 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: OR4100105; phone on file: 541-382-5342. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Avion Wc - Klippel's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Avion Wc - Klippel is 2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Avion Wc - Klippel compares
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 - Klippel's 1 ppb sits at the 50th percentile in Oregon and the 51st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
65 other systems share Deschutes County; 15 of them have a higher latest lead result than Avion Wc - Klippel. 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) |
Next steps for Bend, OR
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bend, OR 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 Avion Wc - Klippel 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.