Shield Crest Water Assn, OR
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Shield Crest Water Assn at a glance
Shield Crest Water Assn serves about 65 people through 26 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Klamath County, Oregon. EPA system ID: OR4101500; phone on file: 541-274-0635. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (0.35 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Shield Crest Water Assn is 0.46 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0.35 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.46 ppb |
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. Shield Crest Water Assn's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 9th percentile in Oregon and the 6th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Klamath County
26 other systems share Klamath County; 18 of them have a higher latest lead result than Shield Crest Water Assn. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Klamath Falls Water Dept | 40,475 | 0 (not detected) |
| Merrill Water Department | 907 | 0 (not detected) |
| Crescent Wtr Supply & Impr Dist | 900 | 0 (not detected) |
| Malin Municipal Water | 815 | 3.37 ppb |
| Oregon Water Utilities - Mountain Lakes | 770 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chiloquin Municipal Water Dept | 730 | 0 (not detected) |
| Falcon Heights | 559 | 4.31 ppb |
| Gilchrist Water System Llc | 440 | 12 ppb |
| Oregon Shores Beach Club Inc | 352 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bly Water District | 310 | 5.38 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Shield Crest Water Assn'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 Shield Crest Water Assn 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.