Aspen Equestrian Blue Creek Ranch, CO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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.
Who runs the water here
Aspen Equestrian Blue Creek Ranch serves about 300 people through 91 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Garfield County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0123152; phone on file: 970-945-5700. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 2 ppb from 3 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Aspen Equestrian Blue Creek Ranch is 3 ppb across 18 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 ppb |
| 2025 | 3 ppb |
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2024 | 2 ppb |
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.8 ppb |
Against other Colorado systems
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. Aspen Equestrian Blue Creek Ranch's 1 ppb sits at the 51st percentile in Colorado and the 52nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
52 other systems share Garfield County; 27 of them have a higher latest lead result than Aspen Equestrian Blue Creek Ranch. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Rifle City Of | 9,489 | 1.4 ppb |
| Glenwood Springs City Of | 9,428 | 1 ppb |
| Carbondale Town Of | 6,700 | 1.5 ppb |
| New Castle Town Of | 5,024 | 0 (not detected) |
| Battlement Mesa Md | 4,100 | 2.8 ppb |
| Silt Town Of | 3,536 | 2 ppb |
| Roaring Fork Wsd | 1,912 | 0.7 ppb |
| Parachute Town Of | 1,320 | 2.4 ppb |
| Apple Tree Park | 1,160 | 2.8 ppb |
| Cottonwood Springs Mhp | 750 | 0.6 ppb |
Next steps for Glenwood Springs, CO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Glenwood Springs, 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 Aspen Equestrian Blue Creek Ranch whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1500 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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.