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Navajo Western Water District Estates, CO

Lead reported as not detected

Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.

Navajo Western Water District Estates at a glance

Navajo Western Water District Estates serves about 145 people through 61 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 Huerfano County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0128625; phone on file: 719-738-3130. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.

Every lead result on file

Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Navajo Western Water District Estates is 1 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.

Period ending90th-percentile lead
20250 (not detected)
20210 (not detected)
20200 (not detected)
20190 (not detected)
20180 (not detected)
20170 (not detected)
20161 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. Navajo Western Water District Estates's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 10th percentile in Colorado and the 12th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.

Nearby utilities

9 other systems share Huerfano County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Navajo Western Water District Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.

SystemPeopleLatest lead
Walsenburg City Of3,23018 ppb
La Veta Town Of8500 (not detected)
Gardner Water And Sanitation Dist4000 (not detected)
Cucharas Sanitation And Water District3432 ppb
Navajo Western Wd Resorts3412 ppb
Spanish Peaks Village Tract Ii Wa1380 (not detected)
Huajatolla Valley Estates Inc1320 (not detected)
Pinon Hills Water Users Association750 (not detected)
Tres Valles West680 (not detected)

Next steps for Walsenburg, CO

Look up your address in Navajo Western Water District Estates'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 Navajo Western Water District Estates 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.