Lawson Acres Water Association, OR
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.
About Lawson Acres Water Association
Lawson Acres Water Association 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 surface water, in Douglas County, Oregon. EPA system ID: OR4100707; phone on file: 541-874-2682. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lawson Acres Water Association's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lawson Acres Water Association is 2 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
Where this result ranks
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. Lawson Acres Water Association's 1 ppb sits at the 50th percentile in Oregon and the 51st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
35 other systems share Douglas County; 24 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lawson Acres Water Association. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Roseburg, City Of | 28,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Umpqua Basin Water Assoc | 9,499 | 3 ppb |
| Winston-Dillard Water District | 8,300 | 7 ppb |
| Sutherlin, City Of | 8,060 | 3 ppb |
| Green Area Water & Sanitary Authority | 7,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Reedsport, City Of | 4,836 | 4 ppb |
| Myrtle Creek, City Of | 3,501 | 5 ppb |
| Tri-City Jw&Sa | 3,500 | 2 ppb |
| Canyonville, City Of | 1,662 | 2 ppb |
| Glide Water Association | 1,523 | 3 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Riddle, 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 Lawson Acres Water Association 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.