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Greetville Carbondale Water, CO

Lead detected, under the action levels

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.5 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 Greetville Carbondale Water

Greetville Carbondale Water serves about 210 people through 65 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Las Animas County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0136321; phone on file: 719-859-6920. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.

Lead results over time

That is down 1.5 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Greetville Carbondale Water is 4 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.

Period ending90th-percentile lead
20250.5 ppb
20212 ppb
20200.5 ppb
20190.5 ppb
20181 ppb
20174 ppb

How Greetville Carbondale Water 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. Greetville Carbondale Water's 0.5 ppb sits at the 41st percentile in Colorado and the 43rd nationally (higher means more lead).

Neighbouring systems

13 other systems share Las Animas County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Greetville Carbondale Water. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.

SystemPeopleLatest lead
Trinidad City Of11,4000 (not detected)
El Moro Hoehne Pipeline Assoc6550 (not detected)
Aguilar Town Of4472 ppb
Santa Fe Trail Ranch Md3600.9 ppb
Sunflower Valley Pipeline Assn3120 (not detected)
Trinidad Lake Ranches Poa2000 (not detected)
Trinidad Manufactured Home Community1330 (not detected)
Branson Town Of1312.5 ppb
Cokedale Town Of1200 (not detected)
Kim Town Of1161.1 ppb

Your move

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Trinidad, 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 Greetville Carbondale Water 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.