Naturita Town Of, CO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.3 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.
Naturita Town Of at a glance
Naturita Town Of serves about 585 people through 430 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Montrose County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0143533. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
That is down 9.1 ppb from 10.4 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Naturita Town Of is 10.4 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2024 | 10.4 ppb over 10 |
| 2023 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.9 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Naturita Town Of's 1.3 ppb sits at the 59th percentile in Colorado and the 60th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Montrose County
20 other systems share Montrose County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Naturita Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Tri County Wcd | 20,490 | - |
| Montrose City Of | 19,305 | - |
| Menoken Wd | 4,500 | - |
| Chipeta Wd | 3,802 | - |
| Olathe Town Of | 3,015 | - |
| Northbrook Villas Mhc | 1,052 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nucla Town Of | 875 | 1.1 ppb |
| Cimarron Creek | 560 | 0.9 ppb |
| River Meadows The | 490 | 3.7 ppb |
| Fruitland Domestic Wc | 335 | 17 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Naturita, 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 Naturita 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.