Sauvie Island Moorage, OR
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.67 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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 Sauvie Island Moorage
Sauvie Island Moorage serves about 96 people through 47 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Multnomah County, Oregon. EPA system ID: OR4101209; phone on file: 503-621-3495. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sauvie Island Moorage is 1.2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0.67 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 1.2 ppb |
How Sauvie Island Moorage 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. Sauvie Island Moorage's 0.67 ppb sits at the 44th percentile in Oregon and the 46th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
24 other systems share Multnomah County; 19 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sauvie Island Moorage. 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 |
| Rockwood Pud | 65,443 | 3.4 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 |
Next steps for Portland, OR
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 Sauvie Island Moorage 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.