Northbrook Villas Mhc, CO
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Northbrook Villas Mhc serves about 1,052 people through 356 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Montrose County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0143552; phone on file: 303-730-2000. 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 2025 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Northbrook Villas Mhc is 0 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
How Northbrook Villas Mhc 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. Northbrook Villas Mhc's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 29th percentile in Colorado and the 27th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
20 other systems share Montrose County; 13 of them have a higher latest lead result than Northbrook Villas Mhc. 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 | - |
| Nucla Town Of | 875 | 1.1 ppb |
| Naturita Town Of | 585 | 1.3 ppb |
| Cimarron Creek | 560 | 0.9 ppb |
| River Meadows The | 490 | 3.7 ppb |
| Fruitland Domestic Wc | 335 | 17 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Northbrook Villas Mhc'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 Northbrook Villas Mhc 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.