Orchard Valley Water Company, WY
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Orchard Valley Water Company at a glance
Orchard Valley Water Company serves about 260 people through 110 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Laramie County, Wyoming. EPA system ID: WY5600012; phone on file: 307-632-0162. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2020 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Orchard Valley Water Company is 0 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
Against other Wyoming systems
Of the 311 Wyoming systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1 ppb; 0 are over 15 ppb right now and 16 have gone over at some point. Orchard Valley Water Company's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 19th percentile in Wyoming and the 17th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
15 other systems share Laramie County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Orchard Valley Water Company. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Cheyenne Board Of Public Utilities | 64,165 | 15 ppb |
| South Cheyenne Water & Sewer District | 10,000 | 6 ppb |
| Usaf F.E. Warren Afb | 5,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Winchester Hills | 1,078 | 3 ppb |
| Burns Board Of Public Utilities | 1,024 | 1 ppb |
| West Winds | 663 | 0 (not detected) |
| Big Country Estates | 615 | 1 ppb |
| Cimmaron Village | 327 | 2 ppb |
| Albin, Town Of | 181 | 0 (not detected) |
| Englewood Village Mhp | 152 | 2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Orchard Valley Water 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 Orchard Valley Water 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.