Englewood City Of, CO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 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.
Englewood City Of at a glance
Englewood City Of serves about 59,904 people through 11,322 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Arapahoe County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0103045; phone on file: 303-762-2685. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2025 (5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Englewood City Of is 5 ppb across 11 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 5 ppb |
| 2025 | 5 ppb |
| 2024 | 4 ppb |
| 2024 | 4 ppb |
| 2023 | 4.4 ppb |
| 2021 | 5 ppb |
| 2020 | 3 ppb |
| 2019 | 4 ppb |
| 2018 | 3 ppb |
| 2017 | 4.8 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.1 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. Englewood City Of's 5 ppb sits at the 93rd percentile in Colorado and the 91st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
28 other systems share Arapahoe County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Englewood City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Aurora City Of | 533,407 | 4.7 ppb |
| East Cherry Creek Valley Wsd | 66,130 | 0 (not detected) |
| Southgate Wsd | 55,000 | - |
| Southwest Metropolitan Wsd | 48,648 | - |
| Arapahoe Cnty Wwwa | 31,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Platte Canyon Wsd | 19,485 | - |
| Willows Wd | 19,000 | - |
| Cherry Creek Village Wd | 9,215 | - |
| Inverness Wsd | 8,140 | 4 ppb |
| Glendale City Of | 4,400 | - |
Next steps for Englewood, CO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Englewood, 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 Englewood City 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.