Elk River Campground, OR
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.54 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
Who runs the water here
Elk River Campground serves about 64 people through 40 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Curry County, Oregon. EPA system ID: OR4194398; phone on file: 541-402-4714. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (0.97 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Elk River Campground is 15.9 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.54 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.97 ppb |
| 2023 | 8.27 ppb |
| 2023 | 15.9 ppb over 15 |
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. Elk River Campground's 0.54 ppb sits at the 42nd percentile in Oregon and the 44th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
11 other systems share Curry County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Elk River Campground. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Brookings, City Of | 7,120 | 0 (not detected) |
| Harbor Water Pud | 3,150 | 6 ppb |
| Gold Beach, City Of | 3,000 | 8.14 ppb |
| Nesika Beach-Ophir Wd | 1,500 | 10.3 ppb |
| Port Orford, City Of | 1,200 | 1.44 ppb |
| Langlois Water District | 220 | 1.73 ppb |
| Rainbow Rock Village Mhp | 115 | 0 (not detected) |
| Whaleshead Beach Resort, Llc | 108 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rainbow Rock Service Association | 80 | 2.15 ppb |
| Saunders Creek Hoc | 75 | 9.1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Port Orford, 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 Elk River Campground whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1860 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. More in what a past exceedance means today.