Platteville Town Of, CO
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 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.
About Platteville Town Of
Platteville Town Of serves about 2,900 people through 913 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 surface water, in Weld County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0162615; phone on file: 970-785-2245. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Platteville Town Of's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Platteville Town Of is 34 ppb across 21 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 ppb |
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2024 | 2 ppb |
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2023 | 2 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2020 | 2 ppb |
| 2020 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 3 ppb |
| 2019 | 3 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 5 ppb |
| 2016 | 34 ppb over 15 |
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. Platteville Town Of's 1 ppb sits at the 55th percentile in Colorado and the 54th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Weld County
54 other systems share Weld County; 19 of them have a higher latest lead result than Platteville Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Greeley City Of | 132,310 | 4 ppb |
| Firestone Town Of | 27,798 | 3.6 ppb |
| Johnstown Town Of | 27,295 | 1 ppb |
| Windsor Town Of | 23,500 | 5.8 ppb |
| Evans City Of | 19,369 | 2.4 ppb |
| Frederick Town Of | 17,173 | 2.9 ppb |
| North Weld County Wd | 15,890 | 3.4 ppb |
| Ft Lupton City Of | 12,099 | 4 ppb |
| Severance Town Of | 11,733 | 2 ppb |
| Milliken Town Of | 9,200 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Platteville, CO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Platteville, 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 Platteville 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.