Deerwood Service Company Llc, CO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.5 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
Deerwood Service Company Llc serves about 91 people through 45 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Routt County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0154205; phone on file: 970-879-2424. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Deerwood Service Company Llc's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Deerwood Service Company Llc is 4.5 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 4.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.5 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. Deerwood Service Company Llc's 0.5 ppb sits at the 40th percentile in Colorado and the 43rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
22 other systems share Routt County; 16 of them have a higher latest lead result than Deerwood Service Company Llc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mt Werner Wd | 19,000 | 2 ppb |
| Steamboat Springs City Of | 9,950 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hayden Town Of | 3,982 | 2.4 ppb |
| Steamboat Ii Md | 1,450 | 8.2 ppb |
| Oak Creek Town Of | 950 | 0.8 ppb |
| Morrison Creek Metro District | 800 | 0.7 ppb |
| Yampa Town Of | 467 | 5.1 ppb |
| Steamboat Lake Wd | 411 | 2.4 ppb |
| Tree Haus Md | 248 | 0 (not detected) |
| Catamount Md Lake Property | 219 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Steamboat Springs, CO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Steamboat Springs, 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 Deerwood Service Company Llc 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.