Gilchrist Water System Llc, OR
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 12 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
About Gilchrist Water System Llc
Gilchrist Water System Llc serves about 440 people through 150 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Klamath County, Oregon. EPA system ID: OR4100320; phone on file: 541-410-9516. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 10.8 ppb from 1.2 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Gilchrist Water System Llc is 12 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 12 ppb over 10 |
| 2023 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2020 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
How Gilchrist Water System Llc 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. Gilchrist Water System Llc's 12 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Oregon and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Klamath County
26 other systems share Klamath County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Gilchrist Water System Llc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Klamath Falls Water Dept | 40,475 | 0 (not detected) |
| Merrill Water Department | 907 | 0 (not detected) |
| Crescent Wtr Supply & Impr Dist | 900 | 0 (not detected) |
| Malin Municipal Water | 815 | 3.37 ppb |
| Oregon Water Utilities - Mountain Lakes | 770 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chiloquin Municipal Water Dept | 730 | 0 (not detected) |
| Falcon Heights | 559 | 4.31 ppb |
| Oregon Shores Beach Club Inc | 352 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bly Water District | 310 | 5.38 ppb |
| Keno Water Co Inc | 290 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Gilcrest, OR
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Gilcrest, 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 Gilchrist Water System Llc 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. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.