Desire For Healing, Inc, OR
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2028). 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.
Desire For Healing, Inc at a glance
Desire For Healing, Inc serves about 33 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Umatilla County, Oregon. EPA system ID: OR4101330; phone on file: 541-276-7157. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Desire For Healing, Inc is 26 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2028 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 3 ppb |
| 2018 | 26 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
How Desire For Healing, Inc 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. Desire For Healing, Inc's 1 ppb sits at the 49th percentile in Oregon and the 50th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Umatilla County
30 other systems share Umatilla County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than Desire For Healing, Inc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Hermiston, City Of | 20,000 | 2 ppb |
| Pendleton, City Of | 16,996 | 3 ppb |
| Umatilla, City Of | 8,256 | 0 (not detected) |
| Milton-Freewater, City Of | 7,145 | 2 ppb |
| Stanfield, City Of | 2,115 | 2 ppb |
| Pilot Rock, City Of | 1,326 | 0 (not detected) |
| Athena, City Of | 1,238 | 1.76 ppb |
| Weston, City Of | 714 | 0 (not detected) |
| Echo, City Of | 632 | 0 (not detected) |
| Adams Water Dept, City Of | 400 | 2 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pendleton, 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 Desire For Healing, Inc 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.