Watseco-Barview Water District, OR
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.68 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Watseco-Barview Water District serves about 450 people through 220 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Tillamook County, Oregon. EPA system ID: OR4101173; phone on file: 503-322-0217. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Watseco-Barview Water District is 23 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.68 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 5 ppb |
| 2016 | 23 ppb over 15 |
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. Watseco-Barview Water District's 0.68 ppb sits at the 44th percentile in Oregon and the 46th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Tillamook County
34 other systems share Tillamook County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than Watseco-Barview Water District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Tillamook Water Dept, City Of | 5,265 | 0 (not detected) |
| Manzanita, City Of | 3,200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fairview Water District | 1,930 | 2.03 ppb |
| Netarts Water District | 1,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Neskowin Reg Water Dist | 1,735 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nehalem, City Of | 1,700 | 1.92 ppb |
| Rockaway Beach, City Of | 1,533 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bay City Water System | 1,400 | 0 (not detected) |
| Long Prairie Water District | 1,052 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pacific City Joint Water - San Auth | 1,000 | 1.8 ppb |
Next steps for Garibaldi, OR
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Garibaldi, 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 Watseco-Barview Water District 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. More in what a past exceedance means today.