Bellyache Ridge Md, CO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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.
About Bellyache Ridge Md
Bellyache Ridge Md serves about 257 people through 67 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Eagle County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0119139; phone on file: 303-956-7604. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Bellyache Ridge Md's lead record
That is down 8.2 ppb from 9.2 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bellyache Ridge Md is 10.5 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 9.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 10.5 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 4 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
How Bellyache Ridge Md 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. Bellyache Ridge Md's 1 ppb sits at the 50th percentile in Colorado and the 52nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Eagle County
21 other systems share Eagle County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bellyache Ridge Md. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Eagle River Wsd | 51,515 | 2 ppb |
| Gypsum Town Of | 15,272 | 2 ppb |
| Eagle Town Of | 7,511 | 3 ppb |
| Mid Valley Md | 4,588 | 1.1 ppb |
| Basalt Town Of | 2,357 | 0 (not detected) |
| El Jebel Mhp | 1,962 | 1 ppb |
| Eagle River Village Mhp | 1,500 | 1 ppb |
| Minturn Town Of | 1,200 | 2 ppb |
| Two Rivers Village | 896 | 0 (not detected) |
| Red Cliff Town Of | 469 | 0.5 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Wolcott, 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 Bellyache Ridge Md 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.