Gold Beach, City Of, OR
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 8.14 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Who runs the water here
Gold Beach, City Of serves about 3,000 people through 1,554 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Curry County, Oregon. EPA system ID: OR4101059; phone on file: 541-247-7459. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Gold Beach, City Of's lead record
That is up 6.82 ppb from 1.32 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Gold Beach, City Of is 8.14 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 8.14 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.32 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.62 ppb |
How Gold Beach, City Of 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. Gold Beach, City Of's 8.14 ppb sits at the 96th percentile in Oregon and the 96th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Curry County
11 other systems share Curry County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Gold Beach, City Of. 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 |
| 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 |
| Elk River Campground | 64 | 0.54 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Gold Beach, 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 Gold Beach, City Of 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.