Hartville, Town Of, WY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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
Hartville, Town Of serves about 64 people through 46 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Platte County, Wyoming. EPA system ID: WY5600186; phone on file: 307-836-2288. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Hartville, Town Of's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hartville, Town Of is 3 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 ppb |
| 2024 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 3 ppb |
| 2021 | 3 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
Against other Wyoming systems
Of the 311 Wyoming systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1 ppb; 0 are over 15 ppb right now and 16 have gone over at some point. Hartville, Town Of's 2 ppb sits at the 57th percentile in Wyoming and the 70th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
5 other systems share Platte County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hartville, Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Wheatland, Town Of | 3,659 | 3 ppb |
| Guernsey, Town Of | 1,157 | 0 (not detected) |
| Glendo, Town Of | 289 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chugwater, Town Of | 200 | 8 ppb |
| Y-O Investments, Inc. | 173 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Hartville, WY 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 Hartville, Town 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. 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.