Csu Main And West Housing Campus, CO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 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.
Who runs the water here
Csu Main And West Housing Campus serves about 27,375 people through 179 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Larimer County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0235184; phone on file: 970-566-2525. 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 6 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Csu Main And West Housing Campus is 8 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 ppb |
| 2021 | 2 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.1 ppb |
| 2018 | 4.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 5.1 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.1 ppb |
Against other Colorado systems
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. Csu Main And West Housing Campus's 8 ppb sits at the 97th percentile in Colorado and the 96th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
44 other systems share Larimer County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Csu Main And West Housing Campus. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ft Collins City Of | 179,901 | 2.8 ppb |
| Loveland City Of | 91,077 | 3.3 ppb |
| Ft Collins Loveland Wd | 63,532 | 2 ppb |
| East Larimer County Wd | 27,944 | 3.9 ppb |
| Little Thompson Wd | 25,654 | - |
| Estes Park Town Of | 16,722 | 1.4 ppb |
| Berthoud Town Of | 14,211 | 10 ppb |
| Wellington Town Of | 11,720 | 3.7 ppb |
| Northern Colorado Wa | 4,675 | 1 ppb |
| West Fort Collins Wd | 4,000 | 5.1 ppb |
Next steps for Fort Collins, CO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Fort Collins, 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 Csu Main And West Housing Campus 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.