Hafez Water System, OR
Lead reported as not detected
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 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Hafez Water System
Hafez Water System serves about 78 people through 24 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Linn County, Oregon. EPA system ID: OR4100025; phone on file: 541-974-6090. 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 down 1.32 ppb from 1.32 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hafez Water System is 1.32 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1.32 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Hafez Water System's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 11th percentile in Oregon and the 7th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
38 other systems share Linn County; 29 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hafez Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Albany, City Of | 57,997 | 2.7 ppb |
| Lebanon, City Of | 18,945 | 8.16 ppb |
| Sweet Home, City Of | 10,322 | 0 (not detected) |
| Harrisburg, City Of | 3,684 | 4.02 ppb |
| City Of Millersburg | 2,615 | 1.2 ppb |
| Brownsville, City Of | 1,906 | 5.56 ppb |
| Mill City Water Department | 1,830 | 2.3 ppb |
| Lyons Mehama Water District | 1,300 | 3.6 ppb |
| Scio, City Of | 900 | 4.7 ppb |
| Halsey, City Of | 800 | 7.64 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Hafez Water System's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Hafez Water 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.