Divide Water Providers Inc, CO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.5 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 Water Providers Inc at a glance
Divide Water Providers Inc serves about 570 people through 77 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Teller County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0160195; phone on file: 719-687-6011. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2025 (0.5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Divide Water Providers Inc is 1.4 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2025 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.7 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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 Water Providers Inc's 0.5 ppb sits at the 43rd percentile in Colorado and the 43rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Teller County
23 other systems share Teller County; 18 of them have a higher latest lead result than Divide Water Providers Inc. 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 |
| Divide Mpc Md No 1 | 679 | 1.2 ppb |
| Teller County Wsd | 600 | 0 (not detected) |
| 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 Divide, CO
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 Water Providers Inc 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.