Riverbend Cabins, CO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.7 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.
About Riverbend Cabins
Riverbend Cabins serves about 55 people through 17 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Routt County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0254676; phone on file: 970-846-9340. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Riverbend Cabins's lead record
That is down 1.8 ppb from 5.5 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Riverbend Cabins is 5.5 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.7 ppb |
| 2021 | 5.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2017 | 4.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 5.3 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. Riverbend Cabins's 3.7 ppb sits at the 88th percentile in Colorado and the 86th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
22 other systems share Routt County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Riverbend Cabins. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mt Werner Wd | 19,000 | 2 ppb |
| Steamboat Springs City Of | 9,950 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hayden Town Of | 3,982 | 2.4 ppb |
| Steamboat Ii Md | 1,450 | 8.2 ppb |
| Oak Creek Town Of | 950 | 0.8 ppb |
| Morrison Creek Metro District | 800 | 0.7 ppb |
| Yampa Town Of | 467 | 5.1 ppb |
| Steamboat Lake Wd | 411 | 2.4 ppb |
| Tree Haus Md | 248 | 0 (not detected) |
| Catamount Md Lake Property | 219 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Steamboat Springs, CO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Steamboat Springs, 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 Riverbend Cabins 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.