Pine River Mdca, CO
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 7.1 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 River Mdca serves about 43 people through 15 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 San Juan County, Colorado. EPA system ID: NM3501024; phone on file: 970-433-8849. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 155.9 ppb from 163 ppb in the period ending 2019. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pine River Mdca is 163 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 7.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 163 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 5.4 ppb |
How Pine River Mdca 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. Pine River Mdca's 7.1 ppb sits at the 96th percentile in Colorado and the 95th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
3 other systems share San Juan County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pine River Mdca. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Silverton Town Of | 2,387 | 2.1 ppb |
| Rosa Joint Ventures Water System | 239 | 3.6 ppb |
| La Vida Mission Community Water Supply | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Ignacio, 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 River Mdca 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.