Golden Terrace Village, CO
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Golden Terrace Village at a glance
Golden Terrace Village serves about 580 people through 233 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Jefferson County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0130317; phone on file: 720-201-6420. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Golden Terrace Village's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Golden Terrace Village is 0 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Golden Terrace Village's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 24th percentile in Colorado and the 23rd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
50 other systems share Jefferson County; 26 of them have a higher latest lead result than Golden Terrace Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Arvada City Of | 171,610 | 3.1 ppb |
| Consolidated Mutual Maple Grove | 81,400 | 3.7 ppb |
| Green Mountain Wsd | 49,400 | - |
| Bancroft Clover Wsd | 44,000 | - |
| Golden City Of | 38,288 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bear Creek Wsd | 30,000 | - |
| Wheat Ridge Water District | 20,000 | - |
| Evergreen Md | 15,750 | 6 ppb |
| Ken Caryl Wsd | 12,000 | - |
| Lakehurst Wsd | 12,000 | - |
Next steps for Wheat Ridge, CO
Look up your address in Golden Terrace Village's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Golden Terrace Village 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.