Blue River Water District, OR
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.91 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.
About Blue River Water District
Blue River Water District serves about 150 people through 86 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Lane County, Oregon. EPA system ID: OR4100125; phone on file: 541-279-6045. 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 7.79 ppb from 10.7 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Blue River Water District is 10.7 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.91 ppb |
| 2020 | 10.7 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 2.07 ppb |
How Blue River Water District 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. Blue River Water District's 2.91 ppb sits at the 78th percentile in Oregon and the 80th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Lane County
71 other systems share Lane County; 20 of them have a higher latest lead result than Blue River Water District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Eugene Water & Electric Board | 176,000 | 4.5 ppb |
| Springfield Utility Board | 62,100 | 2.84 ppb |
| Cottage Grove, City Of | 10,879 | 8 ppb |
| Florence, City Of | 9,561 | 3.22 ppb |
| Junction City Water Utilities | 7,000 | 1.3 ppb |
| Rainbow Water District | 6,300 | 2.1 ppb |
| Creswell, City Of | 5,585 | 3.43 ppb |
| Veneta, City Of | 5,200 | 1.92 ppb |
| Heceta Water Peoples Utility District | 4,921 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oakridge, City Of | 3,200 | 14.2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Blue River, 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 Blue River Water District 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.