Lake Fork Mhp, 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 Lake Fork Mhp
Lake Fork Mhp serves about 487 people through 139 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Lake County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0133100; phone on file: 303-730-2000. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lake Fork Mhp is 3.5 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.5 ppb |
How Lake Fork Mhp 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. Lake Fork Mhp's 0.5 ppb sits at the 42nd percentile in Colorado and the 43rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
5 other systems share Lake County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lake Fork Mhp. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Parkville Wd | 7,500 | 3 ppb |
| Beach Mhp | 624 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mountain Valley Estates | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mt Elbert Wa | 170 | 2 ppb |
| Moose Haven Condos | 48 | 1.5 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Littleton, 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 Lake Fork Mhp 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.