Siletz, City Of, OR
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Siletz, City Of at a glance
Siletz, City Of serves about 1,235 people through 419 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Lincoln County, Oregon. EPA system ID: OR4100821; phone on file: 541-444-2521. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Siletz, City Of's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Siletz, City Of is 0 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Siletz, City Of 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. Siletz, City Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 32nd percentile in Oregon and the 28th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
31 other systems share Lincoln County; 17 of them have a higher latest lead result than Siletz, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lincoln City, City Of | 20,830 | 1.4 ppb |
| Newport, City Of | 10,439 | 2.1 ppb |
| Seal Rock Water District | 6,000 | 4.5 ppb |
| Kernville-Gleneden-Linc Bch Wd | 5,609 | 3.07 ppb |
| Toledo Water Utilities | 3,645 | 2.67 ppb |
| Sw Lincoln Co Water Pud | 3,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Waldport, City Of | 2,300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Depoe Bay, City Of | 1,398 | 0 (not detected) |
| Yachats, City Of | 1,006 | 1.76 ppb |
| Panther Creek Wd | 800 | 2.7 ppb |
Next steps for Siletz, OR
Look up your address in Siletz, City Of'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 Siletz, City Of 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.