Phippsburg Town Of, CO
Lead reported as not detected
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 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.
About Phippsburg Town Of
Phippsburg Town Of serves about 200 people through 115 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 surface water, in Routt County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0154609; phone on file: 970-870-5588. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Phippsburg Town Of's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Phippsburg Town Of is 6 ppb across 18 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 6 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.2 ppb |
Against other Colorado systems
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. Phippsburg Town Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 13th percentile in Colorado and the 15th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
22 other systems share Routt County; 18 of them have a higher latest lead result than Phippsburg Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mt Werner Wd | 19,000 | 2 ppb |
| Steamboat Springs City Of | 9,950 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hayden Town Of | 3,982 | 2.4 ppb |
| Steamboat Ii Md | 1,450 | 8.2 ppb |
| Oak Creek Town Of | 950 | 0.8 ppb |
| Morrison Creek Metro District | 800 | 0.7 ppb |
| Yampa Town Of | 467 | 5.1 ppb |
| Steamboat Lake Wd | 411 | 2.4 ppb |
| Tree Haus Md | 248 | 0 (not detected) |
| Catamount Md Lake Property | 219 | 1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Phippsburg Town Of'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 Phippsburg Town Of whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1500 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. 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.