Last Dollar Pud, CO
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 11.9 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Who runs the water here
Last Dollar Pud serves about 96 people through 32 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in San Miguel County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0157300; phone on file: 970-729-8911. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 6.9 ppb from 5 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Last Dollar Pud is 13 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (2 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 11.9 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 5 ppb |
| 2020 | 4.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 7.1 ppb |
| 2018 | 4.3 ppb |
| 2017 | 5.8 ppb |
| 2016 | 13 ppb over 10 |
Where this result ranks
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. Last Dollar Pud's 11.9 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Colorado and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in San Miguel County
11 other systems share San Miguel County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Last Dollar Pud. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mountain Village Town Of | 9,700 | 1 ppb |
| Telluride Town Of | 7,900 | 1 ppb |
| Norwood Water Commission | 1,700 | 2 ppb |
| Aldasoro Ranch Hoc | 412 | 4.2 ppb |
| Ilium Valley Ws | 322 | 1 ppb |
| Wilson Mesa | 290 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ophir Town Of | 193 | 1.5 ppb |
| San Bernardo Hoa | 132 | 0.9 ppb |
| Elk Run Homeowners Corporation | 125 | 1 ppb |
| Sawpit Town Of | 59 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Telluride, CO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Telluride, 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 Last Dollar Pud 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. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.