Heeney Water District, CO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.5 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.
Heeney Water District at a glance
Heeney Water District serves about 150 people through 75 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Summit County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0159060; phone on file: 303-807-4743. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Heeney Water District's lead record
That is down 2 ppb from 3.5 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Heeney Water District is 4 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 4 ppb |
| 2017 | 4 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.5 ppb |
How Heeney Water District 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. Heeney Water District's 1.5 ppb sits at the 62nd percentile in Colorado and the 63rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Summit County
22 other systems share Summit County; 13 of them have a higher latest lead result than Heeney Water District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Breckenridge Town Of | 28,315 | 2 ppb |
| Snake River Wd | 9,900 | 0.9 ppb |
| Silverthorne Town Of | 8,400 | 0 (not detected) |
| Copper Mountain Consolidated Md | 5,785 | 5 ppb |
| Frisco Town Of | 4,495 | 4 ppb |
| Dillon Town Of | 3,254 | 5 ppb |
| Dillon Valley District | 3,063 | 3 ppb |
| Buffalo Mountain Md | 2,650 | 1 ppb |
| East Dillon Wd | 2,501 | 4.2 ppb |
| Keystone Ranch | 670 | 6 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Silverthorne, 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 Heeney Water District 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.