Rockwood Pud, OR
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.4 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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.
Rockwood Pud at a glance
Rockwood Pud serves about 65,443 people through 13,726 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Multnomah County, Oregon. EPA system ID: OR4100668; phone on file: 503-665-4179. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.2 ppb from 4.6 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Rockwood Pud is 17.4 ppb across 14 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2025 | 4.6 ppb |
| 2024 | 3.1 ppb |
| 2023 | 6.4 ppb |
| 2023 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 9.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 11.4 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 13.2 ppb over 10 |
| 2019 | 13 ppb over 10 |
| 2018 | 12 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 10 ppb |
| 2017 | 14.5 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 17.4 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 13 ppb over 10 |
Where this result ranks
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. Rockwood Pud's 3.4 ppb sits at the 82nd percentile in Oregon and the 85th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
24 other systems share Multnomah County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Rockwood Pud. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Portland Water Bureau | 666,200 | 5.01 ppb |
| Gresham, City Of | 73,932 | 3.81 ppb |
| Troutdale, City Of | 16,185 | 1.2 ppb |
| Fairview, City Of | 9,963 | 6.89 ppb |
| Wood Village, City Of | 4,388 | 1.4 ppb |
| Corbett Water District | 2,954 | 6.2 ppb |
| Pleasant Home Water District | 1,510 | 5.01 ppb |
| Palatine Hill Water District | 1,500 | 5.01 ppb |
| Lusted Water District | 1,200 | 4 ppb |
| Valley View Water District | 1,034 | 5.01 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Portland, 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 Rockwood Pud 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.