Romeo Town Of, CO
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Romeo Town Of
Romeo Town Of serves about 365 people through 146 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Conejos County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0111800; phone on file: 719-843-5785. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Romeo Town Of is 1.5 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
How Romeo Town Of 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. Romeo Town Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 19th percentile in Colorado and the 20th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
7 other systems share Conejos County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Romeo Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Antonito Town Of | 981 | 5 ppb |
| Manassa Town Of | 976 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sanford Town Of | 850 | 0 (not detected) |
| La Jara Town Of | 825 | 0 (not detected) |
| Capulin Wd | 250 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bear Creek Loa | 190 | 2.4 ppb |
| Guadalupe Wa | 42 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Romeo, CO
Look up your address in Romeo Town Of's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Romeo Town 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.