No Name Creek Ws, CO
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2026-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About No Name Creek Ws
No Name Creek Ws serves about 160 people through 65 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Garfield County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0123552; phone on file: 970-945-5700. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2025 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for No Name Creek Ws is 24 ppb across 20 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 3 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 5 ppb |
| 2021 | 2 ppb |
| 2020 | 3 ppb |
| 2020 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 6 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 3 ppb |
| 2018 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 6 ppb |
| 2017 | 6 ppb |
| 2016 | 24 ppb over 15 |
How No Name Creek Ws 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. No Name Creek Ws's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 11th percentile in Colorado and the 13th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
52 other systems share Garfield County; 38 of them have a higher latest lead result than No Name Creek Ws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Rifle City Of | 9,489 | 1.4 ppb |
| Glenwood Springs City Of | 9,428 | 1 ppb |
| Carbondale Town Of | 6,700 | 1.5 ppb |
| New Castle Town Of | 5,024 | 0 (not detected) |
| Battlement Mesa Md | 4,100 | 2.8 ppb |
| Silt Town Of | 3,536 | 2 ppb |
| Roaring Fork Wsd | 1,912 | 0.7 ppb |
| Parachute Town Of | 1,320 | 2.4 ppb |
| Apple Tree Park | 1,160 | 2.8 ppb |
| Cottonwood Springs Mhp | 750 | 0.6 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Glenwood Springs, 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 No Name Creek Ws whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1520 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. More in what a past exceedance means today.