Rifle City Of, CO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.4 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
Rifle City Of at a glance
Rifle City Of serves about 9,489 people through 3,787 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Garfield County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0123676; phone on file: 970-665-6589. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Rifle City Of's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (1.1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Rifle City Of is 4 ppb across 14 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 4 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.8 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Rifle City Of's 1.4 ppb sits at the 61st percentile in Colorado and the 62nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
52 other systems share Garfield County; 25 of them have a higher latest lead result than Rifle City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Glenwood Springs City Of | 9,428 | 1 ppb |
| Carbondale Town Of | 6,700 | 1.5 ppb |
| New Castle Town Of | 5,024 | 0 (not detected) |
| Battlement Mesa Md | 4,100 | 2.8 ppb |
| Silt Town Of | 3,536 | 2 ppb |
| Roaring Fork Wsd | 1,912 | 0.7 ppb |
| Parachute Town Of | 1,320 | 2.4 ppb |
| Apple Tree Park | 1,160 | 2.8 ppb |
| Cottonwood Springs Mhp | 750 | 0.6 ppb |
| Colorado Mtn College Svc | 715 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Rifle, CO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Rifle, 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 Rifle City 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.