Elk Run Homeowners Corporation, CO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
About Elk Run Homeowners Corporation
Elk Run Homeowners Corporation serves about 125 people through 22 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in San Miguel County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0157244; phone on file: 970-729-3419. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Elk Run Homeowners Corporation's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (1.4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Elk Run Homeowners Corporation is 5 ppb across 11 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2023 | 5 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.3 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.9 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. Elk Run Homeowners Corporation's 1 ppb sits at the 50th percentile in Colorado and the 51st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
11 other systems share San Miguel County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Elk Run Homeowners Corporation. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mountain Village Town Of | 9,700 | 1 ppb |
| Telluride Town Of | 7,900 | 1 ppb |
| Norwood Water Commission | 1,700 | 2 ppb |
| Aldasoro Ranch Hoc | 412 | 4.2 ppb |
| Ilium Valley Ws | 322 | 1 ppb |
| Wilson Mesa | 290 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ophir Town Of | 193 | 1.5 ppb |
| San Bernardo Hoa | 132 | 0.9 ppb |
| Last Dollar Pud | 96 | 11.9 ppb |
| Sawpit Town Of | 59 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Redvale, 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 Elk Run Homeowners Corporation 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.