Lingle, Town Of, WY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
Lingle, Town Of at a glance
Lingle, Town Of serves about 486 people through 255 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Goshen County, Wyoming. EPA system ID: WY5600030; phone on file: 307-837-2422. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2023 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lingle, Town Of is 1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 ppb |
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 1 ppb |
Where this result ranks
Of the 311 Wyoming systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1 ppb; 0 are over 15 ppb right now and 16 have gone over at some point. Lingle, Town Of's 1 ppb sits at the 48th percentile in Wyoming and the 53rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
9 other systems share Goshen County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lingle, Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Torrington Municipal Water Dept, City Of | 6,847 | 5 ppb |
| South Torrington Water District | 450 | 4 ppb |
| La Grange, Town Of | 448 | 4 ppb |
| Fort Laramie, Town Of | 230 | 5 ppb |
| Yoder, Town Of | 131 | 1 ppb |
| Dillman Estates | 100 | 1 ppb |
| Stone Creek Hoa | 100 | 7 ppb |
| Cottonwood Acres | 95 | 1 ppb |
| Potlatch Trailer Court | 70 | 3 ppb |
Next steps for Lingle, WY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lingle, WY 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 Lingle, Town Of 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.