Long Creek, City Of, OR
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.12 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.
Long Creek, City Of at a glance
Long Creek, City Of serves about 173 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 Grant County, Oregon. EPA system ID: OR4100490; phone on file: 541-421-3601. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.59 ppb from 0.53 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Long Creek, City Of is 2.97 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.12 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.53 ppb |
| 2020 | 0.85 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.97 ppb |
How Long Creek, City Of 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. Long Creek, City Of's 2.12 ppb sits at the 72nd percentile in Oregon and the 74th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Grant County
7 other systems share Grant County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Long Creek, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| John Day, City Of | 1,617 | 1.7 ppb |
| Prairie City | 841 | 1.43 ppb |
| Canyon City Water Department | 666 | 1.86 ppb |
| Mount Vernon, City Of | 510 | 1.25 ppb |
| Seneca, City Of | 200 | 1.05 ppb |
| Dayville, City Of | 155 | 1.28 ppb |
| Monument, City Of | 115 | 0.91 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Long Creek, 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 Long Creek, City Of 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.