Game Trail Association Inc, CO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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.
About Game Trail Association Inc
Game Trail Association Inc serves about 480 people through 295 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Chaffee County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0108415; phone on file: 719-395-4049. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Game Trail Association Inc's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (0.4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Game Trail Association Inc is 2 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.5 ppb |
How Game Trail Association Inc 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. Game Trail Association Inc's 1 ppb sits at the 52nd percentile in Colorado and the 53rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
17 other systems share Chaffee County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Game Trail Association Inc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Salida City Of | 5,666 | 0 (not detected) |
| Buena Vista Town Of | 3,776 | 1 ppb |
| Poncha Springs Town Of | 2,118 | 0 (not detected) |
| Buena Vista Correctional Facility | 1,700 | 3 ppb |
| Mesa Antero Subd | 250 | 2.5 ppb |
| Trail West Assoc | 249 | 1.5 ppb |
| Chateau Chaparrel Cg | 240 | 0 (not detected) |
| Glenview Owners Assoc | 195 | 0.5 ppb |
| Princeton Estates Subd | 150 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pinon Pines Property Llc | 100 | 2.5 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Buena Vista, 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 Game Trail Association Inc 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.