Medicine Bow, Town Of, WY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Medicine Bow, Town Of at a glance
Medicine Bow, Town Of serves about 189 people through 160 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 Carbon County, Wyoming. EPA system ID: WY5600034; phone on file: 307-703-0418. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Medicine Bow, Town Of's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Medicine Bow, Town Of is 56 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 56 ppb over 15 |
| 2021 | 4 ppb |
| 2018 | 2 ppb |
Against other Wyoming systems
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. Medicine Bow, Town Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 16th percentile in Wyoming and the 15th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Carbon County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Medicine Bow, Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Rawlins Water Supply, City Of | 9,006 | 1 ppb |
| Saratoga, Town Of | 1,720 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hanna, Town Of | 841 | 2 ppb |
| Encampment, Town Of | 450 | 2.69 ppb |
| Sinclair, Town Of | 433 | 4 ppb |
| Baggs, Town Of | 400 | 9 ppb |
| Medicine Waters Village | 200 | 5.26 ppb |
| Elk Mountain, Town Of | 191 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sierra Madre Jpb | 130 | 3 ppb |
| Dixon, Town Of | 114 | 2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Medicine Bow, 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 Medicine Bow, 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.