Idaho Power-Oxbow Village, OR
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Idaho Power-Oxbow Village at a glance
Idaho Power-Oxbow Village serves about 75 people through 27 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Baker County, Oregon. EPA system ID: OR4100384; phone on file: 541-785-7225. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (0.65 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Idaho Power-Oxbow Village is 12 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0.65 ppb |
| 2019 | 12 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 1.64 ppb |
How Idaho Power-Oxbow Village 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. Idaho Power-Oxbow Village'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.
Other water systems in Baker County
8 other systems share Baker County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Idaho Power-Oxbow Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Baker City | 10,349 | 0 (not detected) |
| Huntington, City Of | 510 | 0 (not detected) |
| Haines, City Of | 395 | 1.37 ppb |
| Halfway, City Of | 346 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sumpter, City Of | 208 | 1.98 ppb |
| Richland, City Of | 165 | 2.64 ppb |
| Western Heights Water Company | 90 | 1.76 ppb |
| Unity, City Of | 40 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Idaho Power-Oxbow Village'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 Idaho Power-Oxbow Village 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.