Hidden Springs Ranch, CO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.5 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.
About Hidden Springs Ranch
Hidden Springs Ranch serves about 27 people through 12 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Routt County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0254342; phone on file: 970-819-5923. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (0.5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hidden Springs Ranch is 0.5 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.2 ppb |
How Hidden Springs Ranch 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. Hidden Springs Ranch's 0.5 ppb sits at the 39th percentile in Colorado and the 43rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Routt County
22 other systems share Routt County; 16 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hidden Springs Ranch. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mt Werner Wd | 19,000 | 2 ppb |
| Steamboat Springs City Of | 9,950 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hayden Town Of | 3,982 | 2.4 ppb |
| Steamboat Ii Md | 1,450 | 8.2 ppb |
| Oak Creek Town Of | 950 | 0.8 ppb |
| Morrison Creek Metro District | 800 | 0.7 ppb |
| Yampa Town Of | 467 | 5.1 ppb |
| Steamboat Lake Wd | 411 | 2.4 ppb |
| Tree Haus Md | 248 | 0 (not detected) |
| Catamount Md Lake Property | 219 | 1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Hayden, 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 Hidden Springs Ranch 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.