Lamontai Improvement Wtr Dist, OR
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.42 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. 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.
About Lamontai Improvement Wtr Dist
Lamontai Improvement Wtr Dist serves about 255 people through 98 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 Lane County, Oregon. EPA system ID: OR4100238; phone on file: 541-206-3976. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2020 (2.87 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lamontai Improvement Wtr Dist is 3.83 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.42 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.87 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.83 ppb |
How Lamontai Improvement Wtr Dist 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. Lamontai Improvement Wtr Dist's 2.42 ppb sits at the 74th percentile in Oregon and the 77th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
71 other systems share Lane County; 27 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lamontai Improvement Wtr Dist. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Eugene Water & Electric Board | 176,000 | 4.5 ppb |
| Springfield Utility Board | 62,100 | 2.84 ppb |
| Cottage Grove, City Of | 10,879 | 8 ppb |
| Florence, City Of | 9,561 | 3.22 ppb |
| Junction City Water Utilities | 7,000 | 1.3 ppb |
| Rainbow Water District | 6,300 | 2.1 ppb |
| Creswell, City Of | 5,585 | 3.43 ppb |
| Veneta, City Of | 5,200 | 1.92 ppb |
| Heceta Water Peoples Utility District | 4,921 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oakridge, City Of | 3,200 | 14.2 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Cottage Grove, 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 Lamontai Improvement Wtr Dist 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.