Langlois Water District, OR
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.73 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.
Langlois Water District at a glance
Langlois Water District serves about 220 people through 116 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 surface water, in Curry County, Oregon. EPA system ID: OR4100466; phone on file: 541-348-2142. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is down 8.27 ppb from 10 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Langlois Water District is 10 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.73 ppb |
| 2022 | 10 ppb |
| 2019 | 9.8 ppb |
| 2016 | 5.11 ppb |
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. Langlois Water District's 1.73 ppb sits at the 64th percentile in Oregon and the 67th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
11 other systems share Curry County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Langlois Water District. 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 |
| Gold Beach, City Of | 3,000 | 8.14 ppb |
| Nesika Beach-Ophir Wd | 1,500 | 10.3 ppb |
| Port Orford, City Of | 1,200 | 1.44 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; Langlois, 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 Langlois Water 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. 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.