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Bear Creek Mobile Home Park

What EPA’s and CDC’s records show in this utility’s water: nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals; lead and copper; and violations since 2016, with the certification that handles each result.

Serves
95 people
Connections
49
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Central Point, OR
County
Jackson
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

97535

The short answer

2 results are above the health goal. The worst: Uranium, above the health goal. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 2010 to 2025.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), nitrate and haloacetic acids (HAA5): Oregon’s yearly averages per water system, as CDC’s Environmental Public Health Tracking Network publishes them, 2022 to 2023, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Uranium, fluoride, arsenic and chromium (total): EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from March 21, 2016 to July 25, 2019. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Above the health goal2

Uranium

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

1.2ppb

Highest yearly average, 2016

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.2 ppb, in 2016: below EPA’s legal limit of 30 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. That is the only year on file.

What handles it

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the health goal

0.58ppb

90th percentile, 2023 to 2025

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 0.58 ppb, below EPA’s action level of 15 ppb. The action level drops to 10 ppb on Nov. 1, 2027. EPA’s health goal for lead is zero.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits4

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

27ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2023

2023 average: 15.5 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 27 ppb, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. In 2023, the latest year on file, it averaged 15.5 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 18.1 ppb, in 2012.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

3.1ppm

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2023

Averaged by year, the highest was 3.1 ppm, in 2023, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 3.6 ppm, in 2017.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

18.7ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2023

2023 average: 3.5 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 18.7 ppb, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. In 2023, the latest year on file, it averaged 3.5 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 5.0 ppb, in 2012.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.65ppm

Highest yearly average, 2019

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.65 ppm, in 2019, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. That is the only year on file.

What handles it

2 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Chromium (total)

What handles it

A certification covers specific claims, not a whole standard. Look for these claims on the certifier’s listing, not the box. Wording varies a little: NSF writes “Lead Reduction,” WQA just “Lead.”

At the tap, or for the whole house?

Lead and copper usually come from pipes and fixtures inside or near your home. A whole-house system sits where water enters, so it cannot catch what your own plumbing adds after it. For those, the filter that counts is the one at the tap. How whole-house systems compare.

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Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 3 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), nitrate and haloacetic acids (HAA5) results here are Oregon’s yearly averages as CDC publishes them, from 2022 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Uranium, fluoride, arsenic and chromium (total) come from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. Bear Creek Mobile Home Park’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has newer results for those and the contaminants this page does not show.

  • Your own plumbing. Lead results are the 90th percentile across homes the utility samples. Your home’s service line, solder and fixtures decide yours. A certified lab test is the only way to know.

  • What it means for your health. This page reports what the records show and EPA’s limits and goals; it is not medical advice. If you are worried about a health effect, talk to a doctor or your local health department.

  • Anything after the latest data. SDWIS data is from 2026 Q3; UCMR 5 didn’t sample this utility; CDC’s yearly averages for Oregon cover 2022 to 2023; EPA’s compliance samples are from March 21, 2016 to July 25, 2019.

Testing your own tap

Bear Creek Mobile Home Park’s results are for the water it sends out. What your own service line, solder and fixtures add shows up only in a test of your tap, by a lab Oregon certifies.

The 3 labs Oregon certifies closest to the area Bear Creek Mobile Home Park serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Neilson Research Corporation

    Medford, OR · about 5 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts

    (541) 770-5678

  • Grants Pass Water Laboratory, Inc./The Water Lab

    Grants Pass, OR · about 33 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics

    (541) 476-0733

  • Spring Street Analytical Laboratory

    Klamath Falls, OR · about 40 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (541) 882-6286

Oregon State University Extension Well Water Program: Nitrate screening of well water at many of its groundwater education events. The screening is free. Water Testing Guidance for Private Wells, OSU Well Water Program.

All 91 certified labs for Oregon

Sources

PWSID OR4100050. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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