Dallas Meadows Community Assoc, CO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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.
Dallas Meadows Community Assoc at a glance
Dallas Meadows Community Assoc serves about 120 people through 36 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Ouray County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0246201; phone on file: 970-650-8044. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Dallas Meadows Community Assoc's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (1.2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Dallas Meadows Community Assoc is 3.8 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Dallas Meadows Community Assoc's 1 ppb sits at the 49th percentile in Colorado and the 51st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
4 other systems share Ouray County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Dallas Meadows Community Assoc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ouray City Of | 1,460 | 1.3 ppb |
| Dallas Creek Wc | 1,059 | 2 ppb |
| Ridgway Town Of | 1,000 | 2.5 ppb |
| Elk Meadows Estates | 230 | 1.2 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lafayette, 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 Dallas Meadows Community Assoc 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.