Elbert County Hwy 86 Wd, CO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.8 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.
Elbert County Hwy 86 Wd at a glance
Elbert County Hwy 86 Wd serves about 1,040 people through 190 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 Elbert County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0120245; phone on file: 303-522-4279. 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 up 1.3 ppb from 0.5 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Elbert County Hwy 86 Wd is 1.8 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0.5 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. Elbert County Hwy 86 Wd's 1.8 ppb sits at the 66th percentile in Colorado and the 67th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
14 other systems share Elbert County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Elbert County Hwy 86 Wd. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth Town Of | 4,523 | 4 ppb |
| Spring Valley Md No 1 | 1,788 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kiowa Water And Wastewater Authority | 910 | 3 ppb |
| Deer Creek Wd | 792 | 0 (not detected) |
| Simla Town Of | 618 | 2 ppb |
| Independence Wsd | 567 | 0 (not detected) |
| Elkhorn Ranch Md No 1 | 530 | 0.5 ppb |
| Gambel Oaks Hoa | 350 | 0 (not detected) |
| Elbert Wsd | 300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Prairie Wc | 300 | 1.5 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Watkins, 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 Elbert County Hwy 86 Wd 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.