Mckenzie Palisades Water Board, OR
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 32.5 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. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
About Mckenzie Palisades Water Board
Mckenzie Palisades Water Board serves about 50 people through 35 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 Lane County, Oregon. EPA system ID: OR4100923; phone on file: 541-206-3976. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 30.02 ppb from 2.48 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mckenzie Palisades Water Board is 32.5 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 32.5 ppb over 15 |
| 2025 | 2.48 ppb |
| 2025 | 1.32 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.36 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.98 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.98 ppb |
| 2016 | 3 ppb |
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. Mckenzie Palisades Water Board's 32.5 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in Oregon and the 100th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Lane County
71 other systems share Lane County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mckenzie Palisades Water Board. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Eugene Water & Electric Board | 176,000 | 4.5 ppb |
| Springfield Utility Board | 62,100 | 2.84 ppb |
| Cottage Grove, City Of | 10,879 | 8 ppb |
| Florence, City Of | 9,561 | 3.22 ppb |
| Junction City Water Utilities | 7,000 | 1.3 ppb |
| Rainbow Water District | 6,300 | 2.1 ppb |
| Creswell, City Of | 5,585 | 3.43 ppb |
| Veneta, City Of | 5,200 | 1.92 ppb |
| Heceta Water Peoples Utility District | 4,921 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oakridge, City Of | 3,200 | 14.2 ppb |
Your move
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Mckenzie Palisades Water Board 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.