HILAND WC - BEAR CREEK

Water Quality Snapshot: HILAND WC - BEAR CREEK

HILAND WC - BEAR CREEK is a private-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 275 residents in NEWBERG, Oregon (Lincoln County) through 108 service connections. Its water is drawn from surface water sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 1,799 total violations for this system , of which 207 (12%) are health-based — meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 1,508 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2025.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is Surface Water Treatment Rule, recorded in 228 violations (MR). This system has not yet been sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program, so no PFAS detection data is available here.

Across Oregon, EPA tracks 2,518 public water systems serving 4,005,242 people, with 206,659 cumulative violations and 20,339 health-based violations on record. About 99% of systems in the state carry at least one violation, and state-wide the average per system is 82.1 violations. HILAND WC - BEAR CREEK's 1,799 violations sit above the Oregon average. Statewide, 30 of 125 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (24%). All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.