Pueblo Board Of Ww, CO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.3 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.
Who runs the water here
Pueblo Board Of Ww serves about 114,070 people through 41,132 service connections, which makes it a very large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Pueblo County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0151500; phone on file: 719-584-0263. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Pueblo Board Of Ww's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (2.3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pueblo Board Of Ww is 9.3 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 5.2 ppb |
| 2016 | 9.3 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. Pueblo Board Of Ww's 2.3 ppb sits at the 77th percentile in Colorado and the 76th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Pueblo County
16 other systems share Pueblo County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pueblo Board Of Ww. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Pueblo West Md | 30,000 | 2 ppb |
| St Charles Mesa Wd | 9,690 | 2 ppb |
| Colorado City Md | 2,755 | 1 ppb |
| Avondale Wsd | 1,615 | 5.6 ppb |
| Rye Town Of | 745 | 1 ppb |
| Countryside Estates Pueblo | 508 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pueblo Grande Village | 504 | 0 (not detected) |
| Beulah Water Works District | 445 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pine Drive Wd | 416 | 1.5 ppb |
| Baxter Water And Services | 350 | 2 ppb |
Next steps for Pueblo, CO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pueblo, 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 Pueblo Board Of Ww 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.