Merino Town Of, CO
Lead reported as not detected
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 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Merino Town Of at a glance
Merino Town Of serves about 235 people through 157 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 Logan County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0138025; phone on file: 303-917-4080. 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 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Merino Town Of is 8 ppb across 14 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 4.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 8 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.5 ppb |
Against other Colorado systems
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. Merino Town Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 14th percentile in Colorado and the 16th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
7 other systems share Logan County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Merino Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sterling City Of | 15,100 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fleming Town Of | 446 | 2 ppb |
| Iliff Town Of | 328 | 1.3 ppb |
| Peetz Town Of | 295 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sage Pointe Hoa | 194 | 0 (not detected) |
| Crook Town Of | 182 | 0.3 ppb |
| Sunnyslope Homeowners | 29 | 1.7 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Merino Town Of's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Merino Town Of whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 2600 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.