Ponderosa Park Assoc, CO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Ponderosa Park Assoc at a glance
Ponderosa Park Assoc serves about 100 people through 30 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Gunnison County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0126618; phone on file: 970-349-6156. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 2 ppb from 4 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Ponderosa Park Assoc is 8.5 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 4 ppb |
| 2020 | 4.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 8.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.5 ppb |
How Ponderosa Park Assoc 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. Ponderosa Park Assoc's 2 ppb sits at the 68th percentile in Colorado and the 70th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
19 other systems share Gunnison County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Ponderosa Park Assoc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Gunnison City Of | 9,610 | 3 ppb |
| Mount Crested Butte Wsd | 3,296 | 1 ppb |
| Crested Butte Town Of | 2,440 | 6 ppb |
| Crested Butte South | 2,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Gunnison County Wsd | 800 | 1.6 ppb |
| Evergreen Lake Company | 431 | 2 ppb |
| Riverland Lot Owners Assoc | 368 | 0.5 ppb |
| Skyland Md | 335 | 2 ppb |
| Antelope Hills Assoc | 265 | 1 ppb |
| Meridian Lake Park | 250 | 3 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Crested Butte, 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 Ponderosa Park Assoc 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.