Malin Municipal Water, OR
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.37 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Malin Municipal Water at a glance
Malin Municipal Water serves about 815 people through 309 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Klamath County, Oregon. EPA system ID: OR4100504; phone on file: 541-723-2021. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Malin Municipal Water's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (4.12 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Malin Municipal Water is 4.12 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.37 ppb |
| 2022 | 4.12 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.88 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.32 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. Malin Municipal Water's 3.37 ppb sits at the 81st percentile in Oregon and the 84th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
26 other systems share Klamath County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Malin Municipal Water. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Klamath Falls Water Dept | 40,475 | 0 (not detected) |
| Merrill Water Department | 907 | 0 (not detected) |
| Crescent Wtr Supply & Impr Dist | 900 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oregon Water Utilities - Mountain Lakes | 770 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chiloquin Municipal Water Dept | 730 | 0 (not detected) |
| Falcon Heights | 559 | 4.31 ppb |
| Gilchrist Water System Llc | 440 | 12 ppb |
| Oregon Shores Beach Club Inc | 352 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bly Water District | 310 | 5.38 ppb |
| Keno Water Co Inc | 290 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Malin, OR
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Malin, 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 Malin Municipal Water 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.