Crested Butte Town Of, CO
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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.
Crested Butte Town Of at a glance
Crested Butte Town Of serves about 2,440 people through 1,173 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Gunnison County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0126188; phone on file: 970-349-0885. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Crested Butte Town Of's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Crested Butte Town Of is 18 ppb across 20 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 6 ppb |
| 2025 | 5 ppb |
| 2025 | 7 ppb |
| 2024 | 4 ppb |
| 2024 | 6 ppb |
| 2023 | 5 ppb |
| 2023 | 6 ppb |
| 2022 | 7 ppb |
| 2022 | 6 ppb |
| 2021 | 5 ppb |
| 2021 | 9 ppb |
| 2020 | 7 ppb |
| 2020 | 15 ppb over 10 |
| 2019 | 18 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 13 ppb over 10 |
| 2018 | 5 ppb |
| 2018 | 7 ppb |
| 2017 | 4 ppb |
| 2017 | 12 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 14 ppb over 10 |
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. Crested Butte Town Of's 6 ppb sits at the 95th percentile in Colorado and the 93rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
19 other systems share Gunnison County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Crested Butte Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Gunnison City Of | 9,610 | 3 ppb |
| Mount Crested Butte Wsd | 3,296 | 1 ppb |
| Crested Butte South | 2,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Gunnison County Wsd | 800 | 1.6 ppb |
| Evergreen Lake Company | 431 | 2 ppb |
| Riverland Lot Owners Assoc | 368 | 0.5 ppb |
| Skyland Md | 335 | 2 ppb |
| Antelope Hills Assoc | 265 | 1 ppb |
| Meridian Lake Park | 250 | 3 ppb |
| Buckhorn Ranch Ws | 205 | 0.5 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Crested Butte, 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 Crested Butte 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.