Old Sheep Ranch Water Assoc, OR
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.96 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2023). 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.
Who runs the water here
Old Sheep Ranch Water Assoc serves about 56 people through 37 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Curry County, Oregon. EPA system ID: OR4105860; phone on file: 503-501-7553. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2023 (1.01 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Old Sheep Ranch Water Assoc is 3.39 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.96 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.01 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.04 ppb |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 3.39 ppb |
How Old Sheep Ranch Water 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. Old Sheep Ranch Water Assoc's 0.96 ppb sits at the 49th percentile in Oregon and the 50th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
11 other systems share Curry County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Old Sheep Ranch Water Assoc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Brookings, City Of | 7,120 | 0 (not detected) |
| Harbor Water Pud | 3,150 | 6 ppb |
| Gold Beach, City Of | 3,000 | 8.14 ppb |
| Nesika Beach-Ophir Wd | 1,500 | 10.3 ppb |
| Port Orford, City Of | 1,200 | 1.44 ppb |
| Langlois Water District | 220 | 1.73 ppb |
| Rainbow Rock Village Mhp | 115 | 0 (not detected) |
| Whaleshead Beach Resort, Llc | 108 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rainbow Rock Service Association | 80 | 2.15 ppb |
| Saunders Creek Hoc | 75 | 9.1 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Langlois, 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 Old Sheep Ranch Water 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.