Pine Bluffs, Town Of, CO
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (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.
Who runs the water here
Pine Bluffs, Town Of serves about 1,186 people through 551 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Laramie County, Colorado. EPA system ID: WY5600040; phone on file: 970-420-5257. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2025 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pine Bluffs, Town Of is 27 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 ppb |
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 3 ppb |
| 2021 | 27 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 7 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Pine Bluffs, Town Of's 2 ppb sits at the 73rd percentile in Colorado and the 72nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Laramie County
1 other system shares Laramie County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pine Bluffs, Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mountain View Estates (Knecht Invts) | 75 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Fort Collins, CO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Fort Collins, 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 Pine Bluffs, Town Of 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.