Heritage Improvement District, OR
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2025-2027). 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.
Who runs the water here
Heritage Improvement District serves about 125 people through 58 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 Umatilla County, Oregon. EPA system ID: OR4100615; phone on file: 541-278-1215. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Heritage Improvement District's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Heritage Improvement District is 0 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2027 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
How Heritage Improvement District 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. Heritage Improvement District's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 18th percentile in Oregon and the 11th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
30 other systems share Umatilla County; 17 of them have a higher latest lead result than Heritage Improvement District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Hermiston, City Of | 20,000 | 2 ppb |
| Pendleton, City Of | 16,996 | 3 ppb |
| Umatilla, City Of | 8,256 | 0 (not detected) |
| Milton-Freewater, City Of | 7,145 | 2 ppb |
| Stanfield, City Of | 2,115 | 2 ppb |
| Pilot Rock, City Of | 1,326 | 0 (not detected) |
| Athena, City Of | 1,238 | 1.76 ppb |
| Weston, City Of | 714 | 0 (not detected) |
| Echo, City Of | 632 | 0 (not detected) |
| Adams Water Dept, City Of | 400 | 2 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Heritage Improvement District'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 Heritage Improvement District 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.