Glenwood Springs City Of, 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.
Who runs the water here
Glenwood Springs City Of serves about 9,428 people through 3,500 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Garfield County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0123314; phone on file: 970-384-6348. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Glenwood Springs City Of's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (1.1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Glenwood Springs City Of is 2.4 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2020 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.9 ppb |
How Glenwood Springs City Of 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. Glenwood Springs City Of's 1 ppb sits at the 56th percentile in Colorado and the 55th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Garfield County
52 other systems share Garfield County; 27 of them have a higher latest lead result than Glenwood Springs City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Rifle City Of | 9,489 | 1.4 ppb |
| Carbondale Town Of | 6,700 | 1.5 ppb |
| New Castle Town Of | 5,024 | 0 (not detected) |
| Battlement Mesa Md | 4,100 | 2.8 ppb |
| Silt Town Of | 3,536 | 2 ppb |
| Roaring Fork Wsd | 1,912 | 0.7 ppb |
| Parachute Town Of | 1,320 | 2.4 ppb |
| Apple Tree Park | 1,160 | 2.8 ppb |
| Cottonwood Springs Mhp | 750 | 0.6 ppb |
| Colorado Mtn College Svc | 715 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Glenwood Springs, 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 Glenwood Springs 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. 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.