Cripple Creek City Of, CO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.4 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 Cripple Creek City Of
Cripple Creek City Of serves about 2,817 people through 892 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 Teller County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0160100; phone on file: 719-689-2502. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Cripple Creek City Of's lead record
That is up 4.4 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cripple Creek City Of is 11 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4.4 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2017 | 6.3 ppb |
| 2016 | 11 ppb over 10 |
How Cripple Creek City Of compares
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. Cripple Creek City Of's 4.4 ppb sits at the 92nd percentile in Colorado and the 89th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
23 other systems share Teller County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cripple Creek City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Woodland Park City Of | 8,500 | 6.2 ppb |
| Highland Lakes Wd | 875 | 2 ppb |
| Mountain Mutual Wa | 681 | 1.7 ppb |
| Divide Mpc Md No 1 | 679 | 1.2 ppb |
| Teller County Wsd | 600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Divide Water Providers Inc | 570 | 0.5 ppb |
| Victor City Of | 491 | 1.8 ppb |
| Valley Maint Corp No 1 | 470 | 2.9 ppb |
| Westwood Lakes Wd | 450 | 2 ppb |
| Arabian Acres Md | 325 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Cripple Creek, CO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Cripple Creek, 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 Cripple Creek City 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.