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Rivers Bend Condo Assoc, CO

Lead detected, under the action levels

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.7 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.

Rivers Bend Condo Assoc at a glance

Rivers Bend Condo Assoc serves about 32 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 Pitkin County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0149843; phone on file: 970-379-4067. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.

Rivers Bend Condo Assoc's lead record

That is down 4 ppb from 5.7 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Rivers Bend Condo Assoc is 5.7 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.

Period ending90th-percentile lead
20251.7 ppb
20215.7 ppb
20203.4 ppb
20192 ppb
20182.3 ppb
20170 (not detected)
20164.4 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. Rivers Bend Condo Assoc's 1.7 ppb sits at the 65th percentile in Colorado and the 66th nationally (higher means more lead).

Nearby utilities

25 other systems share Pitkin County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Rivers Bend Condo Assoc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.

SystemPeopleLatest lead
Aspen City Of31,1001 ppb
Snowmass Village Wsd6,3530 (not detected)
Brush Creek Wd5161.1 ppb
Wj Metro District3240 (not detected)
Lazy Glen Hoa3220 (not detected)
Aspen Village Md3003 ppb
Starwood Metropolitan District3000.5 ppb
Holland Hills Md2251 ppb
Woody Creek Metropolitan District2200.5 ppb
Buttermilk Md2000.3 ppb

Next steps for Basalt, CO

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Basalt, 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 Rivers Bend Condo 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.