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North Valley Subdivision Utility Company, 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.

North Valley Subdivision Utility Company at a glance

North Valley Subdivision Utility Company serves about 79 people through 32 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Gunnison County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0126580; phone on file: 970-641-2656. 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 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for North Valley Subdivision Utility Company is 9.5 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.

Period ending90th-percentile lead
20250 (not detected)
20210 (not detected)
20200 (not detected)
20190 (not detected)
20189.5 ppb
20171.5 ppb

How North Valley Subdivision Utility Company 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. North Valley Subdivision Utility Company's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 4th percentile in Colorado and the 7th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.

Neighbouring systems

19 other systems share Gunnison County; 16 of them have a higher latest lead result than North Valley Subdivision Utility Company. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.

SystemPeopleLatest lead
Gunnison City Of9,6103 ppb
Mount Crested Butte Wsd3,2961 ppb
Crested Butte Town Of2,4406 ppb
Crested Butte South2,0000 (not detected)
Gunnison County Wsd8001.6 ppb
Evergreen Lake Company4312 ppb
Riverland Lot Owners Assoc3680.5 ppb
Skyland Md3352 ppb
Antelope Hills Assoc2651 ppb
Meridian Lake Park2503 ppb

Next steps for Gunnison, CO

Look up your address in North Valley Subdivision Utility Company'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 North Valley Subdivision Utility Company 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.