Redwood Water Service Inc, OR
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.9 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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 Redwood Water Service Inc
Redwood Water Service Inc serves about 125 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 Linn County, Oregon. EPA system ID: OR4100020; phone on file: 541-967-7018. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 8.1 ppb from 11 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Redwood Water Service Inc is 12.8 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (2 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2022 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2019 | 4.1 ppb |
| 2016 | 12.8 ppb over 10 |
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. Redwood Water Service Inc's 2.9 ppb sits at the 78th percentile in Oregon and the 80th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Linn County
38 other systems share Linn County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Redwood Water Service Inc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Albany, City Of | 57,997 | 2.7 ppb |
| Lebanon, City Of | 18,945 | 8.16 ppb |
| Sweet Home, City Of | 10,322 | 0 (not detected) |
| Harrisburg, City Of | 3,684 | 4.02 ppb |
| City Of Millersburg | 2,615 | 1.2 ppb |
| Brownsville, City Of | 1,906 | 5.56 ppb |
| Mill City Water Department | 1,830 | 2.3 ppb |
| Lyons Mehama Water District | 1,300 | 3.6 ppb |
| Scio, City Of | 900 | 4.7 ppb |
| Halsey, City Of | 800 | 7.64 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Albany, 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 Redwood Water Service Inc 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.