Hoover Hills Wsd, 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.
Hoover Hills Wsd at a glance
Hoover Hills Wsd serves about 662 people through 256 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Boulder County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0107352; phone on file: 303-328-5800. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2021 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hoover Hills Wsd is 4 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 4 ppb |
| 2017 | 3 ppb |
How Hoover Hills Wsd 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. Hoover Hills Wsd's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 25th percentile in Colorado and the 24th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Boulder County
39 other systems share Boulder County; 17 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hoover Hills Wsd. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Boulder City Of | 166,080 | 2 ppb |
| Longmont City Of | 104,178 | 1.6 ppb |
| Erie Town Of | 47,444 | 2.6 ppb |
| Lafayette City Of | 28,700 | 2 ppb |
| Louisville City Of | 20,975 | 0 (not detected) |
| Left Hand Wd | 20,280 | 1 ppb |
| Superior Md No 1 | 17,900 | 0 (not detected) |
| Longs Peak Wd | 3,200 | 2 ppb |
| Lyons Town Of | 2,990 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nederland Town Of | 2,406 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Golden, CO
Look up your address in Hoover Hills Wsd'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 Hoover Hills Wsd 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.