Rye Town Of, CO
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Rye Town Of at a glance
Rye Town Of serves about 745 people through 119 service connections, which makes it a small 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: CO0151700; phone on file: 719-569-0354. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Rye Town Of's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Rye Town Of is 28 ppb across 18 monitoring periods, 3 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 ppb |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 7 ppb |
| 2024 | 16 ppb over 15 |
| 2024 | 20 ppb over 15 |
| 2023 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2023 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 3 ppb |
| 2022 | 8 ppb |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 2 ppb |
| 2020 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 12 ppb over 10 |
| 2019 | 7 ppb |
| 2019 | 28 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 5 ppb |
| 2017 | 4.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 10 ppb |
How Rye 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. Rye Town Of's 1 ppb sits at the 53rd percentile in Colorado and the 53rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
16 other systems share Pueblo County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Rye Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Pueblo Board Of Ww | 114,070 | 2.3 ppb |
| 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 |
| 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 |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Rye, 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 Rye 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.