Broomfield City And County Of, CO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.5 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.
Broomfield City And County Of at a glance
Broomfield City And County Of serves about 106,153 people through 14,388 service connections, which makes it a very large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Broomfield County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0107155; phone on file: 303-464-5606. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Broomfield City And County Of's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (2.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Broomfield City And County Of is 5.8 ppb across 14 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2023 | 4.4 ppb |
| 2023 | 3.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 4.1 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 5 ppb |
| 2018 | 5.8 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2016 | 4.5 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Broomfield City And County Of's 2.5 ppb sits at the 80th percentile in Colorado and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Broomfield County
2 other systems share Broomfield County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Broomfield City And County Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Front Range | 1,620 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cimarron Village | 1,010 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Broomfield, CO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Broomfield, 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 Broomfield City And County 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. 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.