Animas View Mhp Co-Op, CO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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.
Animas View Mhp Co-Op at a glance
Animas View Mhp Co-Op serves about 292 people through 122 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in La Plata County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0134117; phone on file: 970-661-2777. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Animas View Mhp Co-Op's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Animas View Mhp Co-Op is 2 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 ppb |
How Animas View Mhp Co-Op compares
Of the 1,025 Colorado systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1 ppb; 2 are over 15 ppb right now and 71 have gone over at some point. Animas View Mhp Co-Op's 2 ppb sits at the 70th percentile in Colorado and the 71st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
52 other systems share La Plata County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Animas View Mhp Co-Op. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Durango City Of | 33,787 | 3.1 ppb |
| Animas Wc | 3,096 | 8.8 ppb |
| Bayfield Town Of | 2,300 | 2.7 ppb |
| Forest Lakes Md | 1,699 | 1.7 ppb |
| Lake Durango Wa | 1,577 | 0.7 ppb |
| Purgatory Md | 1,364 | 2 ppb |
| Edgemont Ranch Md | 1,200 | 1.5 ppb |
| Durango West Md No 2 | 930 | 2 ppb |
| Ignacio Town Of | 800 | 0.8 ppb |
| Durango West Md No 1 | 750 | 1 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Durango, CO 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 Animas View Mhp Co-Op 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.