Suburban East Salem Wd, OR
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.5 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 Suburban East Salem Wd
Suburban East Salem Wd serves about 13,900 people through 3,970 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 Marion County, Oregon. EPA system ID: OR4100768; phone on file: 503-364-1620. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.1 ppb from 3.4 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Suburban East Salem Wd is 9.1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 4.5 ppb |
| 2024 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2023 | 7.3 ppb |
| 2017 | 9.1 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Suburban East Salem Wd's 4.5 ppb sits at the 87th percentile in Oregon and the 89th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
71 other systems share Marion County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Suburban East Salem Wd. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Salem Public Works | 199,820 | 2 ppb |
| Keizer, City Of | 38,585 | 0 (not detected) |
| Woodburn, City Of | 29,455 | 3.4 ppb |
| Silverton, City Of | 10,484 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Stayton | 8,400 | 6 ppb |
| Aumsville, City Of | 4,125 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mount Angel, City Of | 3,650 | 6.2 ppb |
| Hubbard, City Of | 3,478 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jefferson, City Of | 3,348 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sublimity, City Of | 3,140 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Salem, 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 Suburban East Salem Wd 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.