Bethel Park, OR
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.2 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Bethel Park at a glance
Bethel Park serves about 125 people through 75 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Marion County, Oregon. EPA system ID: OR4100151; phone on file: 503-734-7400. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 3.2 ppb from 5.4 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bethel Park is 21 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 5.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 21 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 21 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 1.4 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. Bethel Park's 2.2 ppb sits at the 73rd percentile in Oregon and the 75th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
71 other systems share Marion County; 18 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bethel Park. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Salem Public Works | 199,820 | 2 ppb |
| Keizer, City Of | 38,585 | 0 (not detected) |
| Woodburn, City Of | 29,455 | 3.4 ppb |
| Suburban East Salem Wd | 13,900 | 4.5 ppb |
| Silverton, City Of | 10,484 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Stayton | 8,400 | 6 ppb |
| Aumsville, City Of | 4,125 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mount Angel, City Of | 3,650 | 6.2 ppb |
| Hubbard, City Of | 3,478 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jefferson, City Of | 3,348 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Molalla, 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 Bethel Park 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.