Simla Town Of, CO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 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.
Simla Town Of at a glance
Simla Town Of serves about 618 people through 322 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 Elbert County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0120025; phone on file: 719-775-9221. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 2 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Simla Town Of is 5 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 4 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2018 | 4.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 5 ppb |
Against other Colorado systems
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. Simla Town Of's 2 ppb sits at the 72nd percentile in Colorado and the 71st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
14 other systems share Elbert County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Simla Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth Town Of | 4,523 | 4 ppb |
| Spring Valley Md No 1 | 1,788 | 0 (not detected) |
| Elbert County Hwy 86 Wd | 1,040 | 1.8 ppb |
| Kiowa Water And Wastewater Authority | 910 | 3 ppb |
| Deer Creek Wd | 792 | 0 (not detected) |
| Independence Wsd | 567 | 0 (not detected) |
| Elkhorn Ranch Md No 1 | 530 | 0.5 ppb |
| Gambel Oaks Hoa | 350 | 0 (not detected) |
| Elbert Wsd | 300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Prairie Wc | 300 | 1.5 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Simla, 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 Simla 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. 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.