Lost Creek Heights Wtr Assoc, 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.
Lost Creek Heights Wtr Assoc at a glance
Lost Creek Heights Wtr Assoc serves about 100 people through 26 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Columbia County, Oregon. EPA system ID: OR4101304; phone on file: 360-751-2800. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lost Creek Heights Wtr Assoc's lead record
Against the period ending 2020 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lost Creek Heights Wtr Assoc is 0 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
How Lost Creek Heights Wtr Assoc 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. Lost Creek Heights Wtr Assoc's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 16th percentile in Oregon and the 10th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
37 other systems share Columbia County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lost Creek Heights Wtr Assoc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| St Helens, City Of | 13,410 | 1.03 ppb |
| Scappoose, City Of | 8,710 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mcnulty Water Pud | 2,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Vernonia, City Of | 2,100 | 0 (not detected) |
| Clatskanie, City Of | 2,096 | 1.27 ppb |
| Warren Water Association | 2,050 | 0 (not detected) |
| Columbia City Mun Waterworks | 1,995 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Rainier | 1,932 | 0 (not detected) |
| Western Hills Mh Estates | 375 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fishhawk Lake Reserve And Community | 350 | 6.25 ppb |
Next steps for Clatskanie, OR
Look up your address in Lost Creek Heights Wtr Assoc'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 Lost Creek Heights Wtr Assoc 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.