Encampment, Town Of, WY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.69 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Who runs the water here
Encampment, Town Of serves about 450 people through 401 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Carbon County, Wyoming. EPA system ID: WY5600060; phone on file: 307-327-5501. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Encampment, Town Of's lead record
That is down 5.31 ppb from 8 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Encampment, Town Of is 8 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.69 ppb |
| 2020 | 8 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.9 ppb |
Against other Wyoming systems
Of the 311 Wyoming systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1 ppb; 0 are over 15 ppb right now and 16 have gone over at some point. Encampment, Town Of's 2.69 ppb sits at the 76th percentile in Wyoming and the 79th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Carbon County
10 other systems share Carbon County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Encampment, Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Rawlins Water Supply, City Of | 9,006 | 1 ppb |
| Saratoga, Town Of | 1,720 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hanna, Town Of | 841 | 2 ppb |
| Sinclair, Town Of | 433 | 4 ppb |
| Baggs, Town Of | 400 | 9 ppb |
| Medicine Waters Village | 200 | 5.26 ppb |
| Elk Mountain, Town Of | 191 | 0 (not detected) |
| Medicine Bow, Town Of | 189 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sierra Madre Jpb | 130 | 3 ppb |
| Dixon, Town Of | 114 | 2 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Encampment, WY 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 Encampment, Town Of 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.