Mt Elbert Wa, CO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 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 Mt Elbert Wa
Mt Elbert Wa serves about 170 people through 223 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Lake County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0133500; phone on file: 719-651-2794. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 1.2 ppb from 3.2 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mt Elbert Wa is 4.5 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2023 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 4.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 1 ppb |
How Mt Elbert Wa compares
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. Mt Elbert Wa's 2 ppb sits at the 68th percentile in Colorado and the 70th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
5 other systems share Lake County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Mt Elbert Wa. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Parkville Wd | 7,500 | 3 ppb |
| Beach Mhp | 624 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lake Fork Mhp | 487 | 0.5 ppb |
| Mountain Valley Estates | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Moose Haven Condos | 48 | 1.5 ppb |
Next steps for Leadville, CO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Leadville, 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 Mt Elbert Wa 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.