Buena Vista Correctional Facility, CO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 ppb (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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Buena Vista Correctional Facility serves about 1,700 people through 18 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by the state and draws groundwater, in Chaffee County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0108350; phone on file: 719-395-2404. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 3 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Buena Vista Correctional Facility is 3 ppb across 15 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 3 ppb |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 2 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. Buena Vista Correctional Facility's 3 ppb sits at the 84th percentile in Colorado and the 82nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
17 other systems share Chaffee County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Buena Vista Correctional Facility. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Salida City Of | 5,666 | 0 (not detected) |
| Buena Vista Town Of | 3,776 | 1 ppb |
| Poncha Springs Town Of | 2,118 | 0 (not detected) |
| Game Trail Association Inc | 480 | 1 ppb |
| Mesa Antero Subd | 250 | 2.5 ppb |
| Trail West Assoc | 249 | 1.5 ppb |
| Chateau Chaparrel Cg | 240 | 0 (not detected) |
| Glenview Owners Assoc | 195 | 0.5 ppb |
| Princeton Estates Subd | 150 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pinon Pines Property Llc | 100 | 2.5 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Buena Vista, 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 Buena Vista Correctional Facility 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.