Santiam Village, OR
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.35 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.
Who runs the water here
Santiam Village serves about 150 people through 67 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: OR4100476; phone on file: 916-597-2370. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Santiam Village's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (4.81 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Santiam Village is 4.81 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 4.35 ppb |
| 2021 | 4.81 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.42 ppb |
How Santiam Village 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. Santiam Village's 4.35 ppb sits at the 86th percentile in Oregon and the 89th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
38 other systems share Linn County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Santiam Village. 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 |
Next steps for Lebanon, OR
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lebanon, 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 Santiam Village 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.