Medicine Waters Village, WY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.26 ppb (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. 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 Medicine Waters Village
Medicine Waters Village serves about 200 people through 69 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Carbon County, Wyoming. EPA system ID: WY5601741; phone on file: 307-324-8822. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is up 3.19 ppb from 2.07 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Medicine Waters Village is 5.26 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5.26 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.07 ppb |
| 2024 | 4.6 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. Medicine Waters Village's 5.26 ppb sits at the 95th percentile in Wyoming and the 92nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Carbon County
10 other systems share Carbon County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Medicine Waters Village. 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 |
| Elk Mountain, Town Of | 191 | 0 (not detected) |
| Medicine Bow, Town Of | 189 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sierra Madre Jpb | 130 | 3 ppb |
| Dixon, Town Of | 114 | 2 ppb |
Next steps for Rawlins, WY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Rawlins, 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 Waters Village 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.