Sunstone - Boulder Creek, OR
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.95 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.
Who runs the water here
Sunstone - Boulder Creek serves about 350 people through 131 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Lincoln County, Oregon. EPA system ID: OR4100722; phone on file: 503-554-8333. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Sunstone - Boulder Creek's lead record
That is down 3.05 ppb from 4 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sunstone - Boulder Creek is 4 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.95 ppb |
| 2023 | 4 ppb |
| 2021 | 4 ppb |
| 2020 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Sunstone - Boulder Creek's 0.95 ppb sits at the 49th percentile in Oregon and the 50th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Lincoln County
31 other systems share Lincoln County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sunstone - Boulder Creek. 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) |
| Siletz, City Of | 1,235 | 0 (not detected) |
| Yachats, City Of | 1,006 | 1.76 ppb |
Next steps for Newberg, OR
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Newberg, 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 Sunstone - Boulder Creek 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.