Rice Hill West Subdivision, OR
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
Rice Hill West Subdivision serves about 55 people through 19 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Douglas County, Oregon. EPA system ID: OR4106041; phone on file: 707-342-4072. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 3 ppb from 3 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Rice Hill West Subdivision is 7 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 3 ppb |
| 2020 | 4 ppb |
| 2017 | 6 ppb |
| 2016 | 7 ppb |
How Rice Hill West Subdivision 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. Rice Hill West Subdivision's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 6th percentile in Oregon and the 4th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
35 other systems share Douglas County; 28 of them have a higher latest lead result than Rice Hill West Subdivision. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Roseburg, City Of | 28,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Umpqua Basin Water Assoc | 9,499 | 3 ppb |
| Winston-Dillard Water District | 8,300 | 7 ppb |
| Sutherlin, City Of | 8,060 | 3 ppb |
| Green Area Water & Sanitary Authority | 7,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Reedsport, City Of | 4,836 | 4 ppb |
| Myrtle Creek, City Of | 3,501 | 5 ppb |
| Tri-City Jw&Sa | 3,500 | 2 ppb |
| Canyonville, City Of | 1,662 | 2 ppb |
| Glide Water Association | 1,523 | 3 ppb |
Next steps for Oakland, OR
Look up your address in Rice Hill West Subdivision's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Rice Hill West Subdivision 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.