Bandon Coastal Dunes, OR
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6.13 ppb (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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Bandon Coastal Dunes serves about 225 people through 127 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Coos County, Oregon. EPA system ID: OR4195063; phone on file: 541-347-5751. 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 5.57 ppb from 0.56 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bandon Coastal Dunes is 6.13 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 6.13 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.56 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.43 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. Bandon Coastal Dunes's 6.13 ppb sits at the 93rd percentile in Oregon and the 94th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
21 other systems share Coos County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Bandon Coastal Dunes. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Coos Bay North Bend Wtr Brd | 34,500 | 1.83 ppb |
| Coquille, City Of | 3,953 | 4.36 ppb |
| Bandon, City Of | 3,000 | 0.89 ppb |
| Myrtle Point, City Of | 2,656 | 1.77 ppb |
| Lakeside Water District | 1,800 | 2.21 ppb |
| Powers, City Of | 712 | 1.86 ppb |
| Shelley Road-Crest Acres Wd | 430 | 0.85 ppb |
| Rink Creek Water District | 285 | 1.02 ppb |
| Bridge Water District | 150 | 0.81 ppb |
| Garden Valley Water Association | 84 | 4 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bandon, 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 Bandon Coastal Dunes 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.