Fruitland Domestic Wc, CO
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 17 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. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Fruitland Domestic Wc serves about 335 people through 151 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Montrose County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0115288; phone on file: 970-901-0513. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 11 ppb from 6 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fruitland Domestic Wc is 22 ppb across 18 monitoring periods, 3 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 ppb over 15 |
| 2025 | 6 ppb |
| 2024 | 22 ppb over 15 |
| 2024 | 5 ppb |
| 2023 | 5 ppb |
| 2022 | 9 ppb |
| 2022 | 13 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 8 ppb |
| 2020 | 5 ppb |
| 2020 | 3 ppb |
| 2019 | 6 ppb |
| 2019 | 7 ppb |
| 2018 | 4 ppb |
| 2018 | 14 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 5 ppb |
| 2017 | 12 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 18 ppb over 15 |
How Fruitland Domestic Wc compares
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. Fruitland Domestic Wc's 17 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in Colorado and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
20 other systems share Montrose County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fruitland Domestic Wc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Tri County Wcd | 20,490 | - |
| Montrose City Of | 19,305 | - |
| Menoken Wd | 4,500 | - |
| Chipeta Wd | 3,802 | - |
| Olathe Town Of | 3,015 | - |
| Northbrook Villas Mhc | 1,052 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nucla Town Of | 875 | 1.1 ppb |
| Naturita Town Of | 585 | 1.3 ppb |
| Cimarron Creek | 560 | 0.9 ppb |
| River Meadows The | 490 | 3.7 ppb |
Your move
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Fruitland Domestic Wc 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.