Oregon Water Utilities - Southview, OR
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.65 ppb (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. 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.
About Oregon Water Utilities - Southview
Oregon Water Utilities - Southview serves about 250 people through 119 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Klamath County, Oregon. EPA system ID: OR4101503; phone on file: 541-850-5566. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Oregon Water Utilities - Southview's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (0.45 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Oregon Water Utilities - Southview is 0.65 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.65 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.45 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.38 ppb |
How Oregon Water Utilities - Southview 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. Oregon Water Utilities - Southview's 0.65 ppb sits at the 44th percentile in Oregon and the 45th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Klamath County
26 other systems share Klamath County; 13 of them have a higher latest lead result than Oregon Water Utilities - Southview. 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) |
| Malin Municipal Water | 815 | 3.37 ppb |
| 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 |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Klamath Falls, 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 Oregon Water Utilities - Southview 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.