Paradise/Rogue Meadows Ws, OR
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.9 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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 Paradise/Rogue Meadows Ws
Paradise/Rogue Meadows Ws serves about 165 people through 88 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Jackson County, Oregon. EPA system ID: OR4100268; phone on file: 503-766-4414. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (0.7 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Paradise/Rogue Meadows Ws is 2.25 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.88 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.36 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.87 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.25 ppb |
| 2020 | 0.87 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.85 ppb |
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. Paradise/Rogue Meadows Ws's 0.9 ppb sits at the 48th percentile in Oregon and the 49th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
63 other systems share Jackson County; 32 of them have a higher latest lead result than Paradise/Rogue Meadows Ws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Medford Water Commission | 106,068 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ashland Water Department | 20,946 | 3.44 ppb |
| Central Point, City Of | 19,785 | 0.67 ppb |
| Eagle Point, City Of | 9,554 | 1.32 ppb |
| Talent, City Of | 6,293 | 0.55 ppb |
| Phoenix, City Of | 5,900 | 0.23 ppb |
| Jacksonville, City Of | 3,012 | 2.78 ppb |
| Rogue River, City Of | 2,345 | 0.71 ppb |
| Gold Hill, City Of | 1,335 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hiland Wc - Shady Cove | 1,000 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Clackamas, 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 Paradise/Rogue Meadows Ws 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.