Divide Mpc Md No 1, CO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.2 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. 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.
Divide Mpc Md No 1 at a glance
Divide Mpc Md No 1 serves about 679 people through 67 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 groundwater, in Teller County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0160295; phone on file: 719-331-9193. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 1.1 ppb from 2.3 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Divide Mpc Md No 1 is 6.9 ppb across 21 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2025 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2025 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 5.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 4.6 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 4.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 6.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.7 ppb |
| 2018 | 5.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 4.8 ppb |
| 2017 | 6.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2016 | 6.9 ppb |
| 2016 | 6.6 ppb |
How Divide Mpc Md No 1 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. Divide Mpc Md No 1's 1.2 ppb sits at the 59th percentile in Colorado and the 59th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
23 other systems share Teller County; 13 of them have a higher latest lead result than Divide Mpc Md No 1. 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 |
| Cripple Creek City Of | 2,817 | 4.4 ppb |
| Highland Lakes Wd | 875 | 2 ppb |
| Mountain Mutual Wa | 681 | 1.7 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) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Divide, 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 Divide Mpc Md No 1 whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1360 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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.