Candlewood Park, CO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.8 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 Candlewood Park
Candlewood Park serves about 800 people through 431 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Mesa County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0139166; phone on file: 970-212-7481. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (0.9 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Candlewood Park is 1.6 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Candlewood Park's 0.8 ppb sits at the 45th percentile in Colorado and the 48th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Mesa County
12 other systems share Mesa County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Candlewood Park. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ute Wcd | 92,580 | 1.4 ppb |
| Clifton Wd | 34,500 | 2.2 ppb |
| Grand Junction City Of | 26,000 | 8.2 ppb |
| Palisade Town Of | 3,060 | 0.3 ppb |
| Debeque Town Of | 911 | 1.4 ppb |
| Midlands Village | 893 | 0 (not detected) |
| Collbran Town Of | 678 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kannah Creek | 435 | 1.4 ppb |
| Gateway Canyons Ws | 370 | 3.7 ppb |
| Mesa Wsd | 330 | 3.5 ppb |
Next steps for Clifton, CO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Clifton, 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 Candlewood Park 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.