Poncha Springs 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 Poncha Springs Town Of
Poncha Springs Town Of serves about 2,118 people through 804 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 Chaffee County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0108650; phone on file: 719-539-6882. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2025 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Poncha Springs Town Of is 2 ppb across 17 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 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. Poncha Springs Town Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 32nd percentile in Colorado and the 31st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
17 other systems share Chaffee County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than Poncha Springs Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Salida City Of | 5,666 | 0 (not detected) |
| Buena Vista Town Of | 3,776 | 1 ppb |
| Buena Vista Correctional Facility | 1,700 | 3 ppb |
| Game Trail Association Inc | 480 | 1 ppb |
| Mesa Antero Subd | 250 | 2.5 ppb |
| Trail West Assoc | 249 | 1.5 ppb |
| Chateau Chaparrel Cg | 240 | 0 (not detected) |
| Glenview Owners Assoc | 195 | 0.5 ppb |
| Princeton Estates Subd | 150 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pinon Pines Property Llc | 100 | 2.5 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Poncha Springs 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 Poncha Springs Town Of whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1490 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. 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.