Beehive Water Association, CO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.7 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Beehive Water Association at a glance
Beehive Water Association serves about 154 people through 87 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Otero County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0145030; phone on file: 719-980-5050. 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 up 1.9 ppb from 0.8 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Beehive Water Association is 3.8 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 3 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.8 ppb |
How Beehive Water Association 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. Beehive Water Association's 2.7 ppb sits at the 80th percentile in Colorado and the 79th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
22 other systems share Otero County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Beehive Water Association. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| La Junta City Of | 8,320 | 1 ppb |
| Rocky Ford City Of | 4,443 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fowler Town Of | 1,169 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bents Fort Wc | 900 | 0.6 ppb |
| Swink Town Of | 660 | 2 ppb |
| South Swink Water Authority | 622 | 3 ppb |
| Eureka Wc | 498 | 0 (not detected) |
| Manzanola Town Of | 497 | 0 (not detected) |
| Newdale Grand Valley Wc | 458 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hilltop Wc | 285 | 1.5 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Cheraw, 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 Beehive Water Association 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.