Avion Wc - Wild River, OR
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.9 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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 - Wild River
Avion Wc - Wild River serves about 276 people through 138 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: OR4100975; phone on file: 541-948-6676. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 3.9 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Avion Wc - Wild River is 5 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.9 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 3 ppb |
| 2018 | 3 ppb |
| 2016 | 5 ppb |
Against other Oregon systems
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 - Wild River's 3.9 ppb sits at the 84th percentile in Oregon and the 87th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
65 other systems share Deschutes County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Avion Wc - Wild River. 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
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 - Wild River 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.