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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
60 people
Connections
41
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Mulino, OR
County
Clackamas
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

97055

The short answer

1 result is above EPA’s legal limit. The worst: Lead, above the action level. 1 health-based violation since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 1996 to 2026.

Copper: EPA’s file records a utility’s copper only when it exceeds the action level. The last here was 1.5 ppm, for the period ending Dec. 31, 2001. None since is on file, so it is not counted as a current finding.

Nitrate: Oregon’s yearly averages per water system, as CDC’s Environmental Public Health Tracking Network publishes them, 2020 to 2023, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Chromium (total), arsenic and fluoride: EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from Aug. 20, 2019 to Aug. 20, 2019. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Above the legal limit1

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the action level

28.2ppb

90th percentile, 2024 to 2026

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 28.2 ppb, above EPA’s action level of 15 ppb. The action level drops to 10 ppb on Nov. 1, 2027, and this result is at or above that. EPA’s health goal for lead is zero.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits2

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.95ppm

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2023

2023 average: 0.87 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.95 ppm, in 2021, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2023, the latest year on file, it averaged 0.87 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 0.99 ppm, in 2015.

What handles it

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

Chromium (total)

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

1.9ppb

Highest yearly average, 2019

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.9 ppb, in 2019, below EPA’s legal limit of 100 ppb. 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
  • Fluoride

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

Contaminant or ruleTypePeriodMeasuredStatus
Lead and Copper Rule RevisionsThe required inventory of lead service lines was not completed or submitted on time.EPA: LSL InventoryOct. 17, 2024—Resolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 62 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Nitrate results here are Oregon’s yearly averages as CDC publishes them, from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Chromium (total), arsenic and fluoride come from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. Big Foot MHP’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 2020 to 2023; EPA’s compliance samples are from Aug. 20, 2019 to Aug. 20, 2019.

Testing your own tap

Big Foot MHP’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 Big Foot MHP serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Clackamas River Water Drinking Water Quality Laboratory

    Clackamas, OR · about 19 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (503) 722-9241

  • Clackamas Water Environment Services-Water Quality Laboratory

    Oregon City, OR · about 19 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (503) 557-2868

  • Columbia Laboratories Inc.

    Portland, OR · about 21 miles

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

    (503) 254-1794

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 OR4101461. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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