Salt Creek Water District, WY
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.
Who runs the water here
Salt Creek Water District serves about 600 people through 204 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 groundwater, in Weston County, Wyoming. EPA system ID: WY5600133; phone on file: 307-746-3331. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Salt Creek Water District is 3 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 2 ppb |
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 3 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
Where this result ranks
Of the 311 Wyoming systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1 ppb; 0 are over 15 ppb right now and 16 have gone over at some point. Salt Creek Water District's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 25th percentile in Wyoming and the 23rd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Weston County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Salt Creek Water District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Newcastle, City Of | 3,595 | 1 ppb |
| Upton, Town Of | 1,100 | 4 ppb |
| West End Water District | 225 | 1 ppb |
| Osage Water District | 200 | 3 ppb |
| Cambria I&S District | 148 | 0 (not detected) |
| Water Unlimited, Incorporated | 144 | 0 (not detected) |
| Canyon Improvement & Service District | 79 | 1 ppb |
| Sunset Ranch Water District | 70 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Newcastle, WY
Look up your address in Salt Creek Water District'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 Salt Creek Water District 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.