Butte Falls, Town Of, OR
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6.41 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 Butte Falls, Town Of
Butte Falls, Town Of serves about 443 people through 218 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 Jackson County, Oregon. EPA system ID: OR4100154; phone on file: 541-865-3262. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Butte Falls, Town Of's lead record
That is up 4.26 ppb from 2.15 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Butte Falls, Town Of is 6.41 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 6.41 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.15 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.81 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.64 ppb |
How Butte Falls, Town Of 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. Butte Falls, Town Of's 6.41 ppb sits at the 93rd percentile in Oregon and the 94th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
63 other systems share Jackson County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Butte Falls, Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Medford Water Commission | 106,068 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ashland Water Department | 20,946 | 3.44 ppb |
| Central Point, City Of | 19,785 | 0.67 ppb |
| Eagle Point, City Of | 9,554 | 1.32 ppb |
| Talent, City Of | 6,293 | 0.55 ppb |
| Phoenix, City Of | 5,900 | 0.23 ppb |
| Jacksonville, City Of | 3,012 | 2.78 ppb |
| Rogue River, City Of | 2,345 | 0.71 ppb |
| Gold Hill, City Of | 1,335 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hiland Wc - Shady Cove | 1,000 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Butte Falls, 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 Butte Falls, Town Of 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.