El Moro Hoehne Pipeline Assoc, CO
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About El Moro Hoehne Pipeline Assoc
El Moro Hoehne Pipeline Assoc serves about 655 people through 193 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 surface water, in Las Animas County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0136249; phone on file: 719-859-2523. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
El Moro Hoehne Pipeline Assoc's lead record
That is down 3 ppb from 3 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for El Moro Hoehne Pipeline Assoc is 5.7 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 3 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2020 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2017 | 5.7 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.8 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. El Moro Hoehne Pipeline Assoc's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 25th percentile in Colorado and the 24th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Las Animas County
13 other systems share Las Animas County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than El Moro Hoehne Pipeline Assoc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Trinidad City Of | 11,400 | 0 (not detected) |
| Aguilar Town Of | 447 | 2 ppb |
| Santa Fe Trail Ranch Md | 360 | 0.9 ppb |
| Sunflower Valley Pipeline Assn | 312 | 0 (not detected) |
| Greetville Carbondale Water | 210 | 0.5 ppb |
| Trinidad Lake Ranches Poa | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Trinidad Manufactured Home Community | 133 | 0 (not detected) |
| Branson Town Of | 131 | 2.5 ppb |
| Cokedale Town Of | 120 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kim Town Of | 116 | 1.1 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in El Moro Hoehne Pipeline Assoc's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask El Moro Hoehne Pipeline 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.