Northwest Newberg Water Assn, OR
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Northwest Newberg Water Assn at a glance
Northwest Newberg Water Assn serves about 250 people through 62 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 Yamhill County, Oregon. EPA system ID: OR4100560; phone on file: 503-550-7385. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Northwest Newberg Water Assn's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Northwest Newberg Water Assn is 0 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Northwest Newberg Water Assn's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 25th percentile in Oregon and the 17th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
37 other systems share Yamhill County; 22 of them have a higher latest lead result than Northwest Newberg Water Assn. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mcminnville Water & Light | 34,515 | 1.2 ppb |
| Newberg, City Of | 25,138 | 2.32 ppb |
| Sheridan, City Of | 6,494 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lafayette, City Of | 4,423 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dundee, City Of | 2,960 | 1.1 ppb |
| Dayton, City Of | 2,535 | 0 (not detected) |
| Carlton, City Of | 2,270 | 1.8 ppb |
| Willamina, City Of | 2,239 | 2.4 ppb |
| Amity, City Of | 1,810 | 0 (not detected) |
| Yamhill, City Of | 1,199 | 2.92 ppb |
Next steps for Newberg, OR
Look up your address in Northwest Newberg Water Assn'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 Northwest Newberg Water Assn 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.