Santa Fe Trail Ranch Md, CO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.9 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.
Santa Fe Trail Ranch Md at a glance
Santa Fe Trail Ranch Md serves about 360 people through 212 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 surface water, in Las Animas County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0136700; phone on file: 719-859-0606. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Santa Fe Trail Ranch Md is 2.5 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 2.5 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. Santa Fe Trail Ranch Md's 0.9 ppb sits at the 47th percentile in Colorado and the 49th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
13 other systems share Las Animas County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Santa Fe Trail Ranch Md. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Trinidad City Of | 11,400 | 0 (not detected) |
| El Moro Hoehne Pipeline Assoc | 655 | 0 (not detected) |
| Aguilar Town Of | 447 | 2 ppb |
| Sunflower Valley Pipeline Assn | 312 | 0 (not detected) |
| Greetville Carbondale Water | 210 | 0.5 ppb |
| Trinidad Lake Ranches Poa | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Trinidad Manufactured Home Community | 133 | 0 (not detected) |
| Branson Town Of | 131 | 2.5 ppb |
| Cokedale Town Of | 120 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kim Town Of | 116 | 1.1 ppb |
Next steps for Trinidad, CO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Trinidad, 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 Santa Fe Trail Ranch Md 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.