Buckskin Valley Subdivision, CO
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Buckskin Valley Subdivision at a glance
Buckskin Valley Subdivision serves about 28 people through 14 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Rio Blanco County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0252160; phone on file: 970-756-5056. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Buckskin Valley Subdivision's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Buckskin Valley Subdivision is 23 ppb across 12 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 23 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 3 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. Buckskin Valley Subdivision's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 1st percentile in Colorado and the 1st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Rio Blanco County
4 other systems share Rio Blanco County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Buckskin Valley Subdivision. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Rangely Town Of | 2,495 | 2 ppb |
| Meeker Town Of | 2,473 | 5 ppb |
| Cross L Estates | 50 | 3 ppb |
| Ridge Estates Homeowners Association | 28 | - |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Meeker, 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 Buckskin Valley Subdivision 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.