Breckenridge Town Of, CO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 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 Breckenridge Town Of
Breckenridge Town Of serves about 28,315 people through 4,794 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Summit County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0159020; phone on file: 970-453-3378. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Breckenridge Town Of's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Breckenridge Town Of is 4 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2020 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 4 ppb |
| 2018 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 3 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.2 ppb |
How Breckenridge Town Of 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. Breckenridge Town Of's 2 ppb sits at the 75th percentile in Colorado and the 73rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
22 other systems share Summit County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Breckenridge Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Snake River Wd | 9,900 | 0.9 ppb |
| Silverthorne Town Of | 8,400 | 0 (not detected) |
| Copper Mountain Consolidated Md | 5,785 | 5 ppb |
| Frisco Town Of | 4,495 | 4 ppb |
| Dillon Town Of | 3,254 | 5 ppb |
| Dillon Valley District | 3,063 | 3 ppb |
| Buffalo Mountain Md | 2,650 | 1 ppb |
| East Dillon Wd | 2,501 | 4.2 ppb |
| Keystone Ranch | 670 | 6 ppb |
| Mesa Cortina Wsd | 466 | 2 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Breckenridge, 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 Breckenridge Town Of 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.