Falcon Cove Beach Wd, OR
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.55 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.
Falcon Cove Beach Wd at a glance
Falcon Cove Beach Wd serves about 215 people through 93 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 Clatsop County, Oregon. EPA system ID: OR4100045; phone on file: 503-436-2352. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Falcon Cove Beach Wd's lead record
That is down 6.45 ppb from 9 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Falcon Cove Beach Wd is 25 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.55 ppb |
| 2023 | 9 ppb |
| 2023 | 4 ppb |
| 2022 | 25 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 3 ppb |
| 2019 | 3 ppb |
| 2016 | 9.7 ppb |
| 2016 | 9.7 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Falcon Cove Beach Wd's 2.55 ppb sits at the 75th percentile in Oregon and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Clatsop County
20 other systems share Clatsop County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Falcon Cove Beach Wd. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Astoria, City Of | 10,181 | 1.56 ppb |
| Warrenton, City Of | 9,100 | 1.15 ppb |
| Seaside Water Department | 7,482 | 0.71 ppb |
| Youngs River Lewis & Clark Wd | 2,580 | 0 (not detected) |
| Knappa Water Association | 1,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Gearhart Water Department | 1,780 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cannon Beach, City Of | 1,710 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wickiup Water District | 1,630 | 4 ppb |
| Olney-Walluski Water Assn | 575 | 1 ppb |
| Westport Water Association | 550 | 3.22 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Arch Cape, 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 Falcon Cove Beach Wd whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 2790 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.