Or Youth Authority - Maclaren, OR
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.3 ppb (monitoring period 2020-2022). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Or Youth Authority - Maclaren
Or Youth Authority - Maclaren serves about 750 people through 20 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by the state and draws groundwater, in Marion County, Oregon. EPA system ID: OR4100960; phone on file: 503-986-0376. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is down 2.4 ppb from 7.7 ppb in the period ending 2019. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Or Youth Authority - Maclaren is 15.4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 5.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 7.7 ppb |
| 2016 | 15.4 ppb over 15 |
How Or Youth Authority - Maclaren 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. Or Youth Authority - Maclaren's 5.3 ppb sits at the 90th percentile in Oregon and the 92nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Marion County
71 other systems share Marion County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Or Youth Authority - Maclaren. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Salem Public Works | 199,820 | 2 ppb |
| Keizer, City Of | 38,585 | 0 (not detected) |
| Woodburn, City Of | 29,455 | 3.4 ppb |
| Suburban East Salem Wd | 13,900 | 4.5 ppb |
| Silverton, City Of | 10,484 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Stayton | 8,400 | 6 ppb |
| Aumsville, City Of | 4,125 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mount Angel, City Of | 3,650 | 6.2 ppb |
| Hubbard, City Of | 3,478 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jefferson, City Of | 3,348 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Woodburn, OR
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Woodburn, 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 Or Youth Authority - Maclaren 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.