Fernhill Community Wtr System, OR
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Fernhill Community Wtr System at a glance
Fernhill Community Wtr System serves about 300 people through 95 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Clatsop County, Oregon. EPA system ID: OR4100059; phone on file: 503-325-8660. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Fernhill Community Wtr System's lead record
That is down 3 ppb from 3 ppb in the period ending 2019. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fernhill Community Wtr System is 35 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 3 ppb |
| 2019 | 3 ppb |
| 2016 | 35 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 5 ppb |
| 2016 | 5 ppb |
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. Fernhill Community Wtr System's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 26th percentile in Oregon and the 19th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
20 other systems share Clatsop County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fernhill Community Wtr System. 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 |
Next steps for Astoria, OR
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Astoria, 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 Fernhill Community Wtr System 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.