Springfield Utility Board, OR
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.84 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.
About Springfield Utility Board
Springfield Utility Board serves about 62,100 people through 20,750 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 Lane County, Oregon. EPA system ID: OR4100837; phone on file: 541-744-3730. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Springfield Utility Board's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (2.84 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Springfield Utility Board is 4.89 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.84 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.84 ppb |
| 2021 | 4.75 ppb |
| 2021 | 4.75 ppb |
| 2018 | 4.89 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.76 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.99 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.9 ppb |
How Springfield Utility Board 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. Springfield Utility Board's 2.84 ppb sits at the 77th percentile in Oregon and the 80th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Lane County
71 other systems share Lane County; 21 of them have a higher latest lead result than Springfield Utility Board. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Eugene Water & Electric Board | 176,000 | 4.5 ppb |
| Cottage Grove, City Of | 10,879 | 8 ppb |
| Florence, City Of | 9,561 | 3.22 ppb |
| Junction City Water Utilities | 7,000 | 1.3 ppb |
| Rainbow Water District | 6,300 | 2.1 ppb |
| Creswell, City Of | 5,585 | 3.43 ppb |
| Veneta, City Of | 5,200 | 1.92 ppb |
| Heceta Water Peoples Utility District | 4,921 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oakridge, City Of | 3,200 | 14.2 ppb |
| Lowell, City Of | 1,264 | 6.74 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Springfield, 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 Springfield Utility Board 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.