Snake River Wd, CO
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.9 ppb (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 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.
Snake River Wd at a glance
Snake River Wd serves about 9,900 people through 969 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Summit County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0159105; phone on file: 970-468-0328. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Snake River Wd's lead record
That is down 2.3 ppb from 3.2 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Snake River Wd is 16.8 ppb across 14 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2024 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2023 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 2 ppb |
| 2020 | 6.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 8.8 ppb |
| 2019 | 8.3 ppb |
| 2018 | 6.8 ppb |
| 2018 | 11.4 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 16.8 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 3.3 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. Snake River Wd's 0.9 ppb sits at the 47th percentile in Colorado and the 49th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
22 other systems share Summit County; 19 of them have a higher latest lead result than Snake River Wd. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Breckenridge Town Of | 28,315 | 2 ppb |
| Silverthorne Town Of | 8,400 | 0 (not detected) |
| Copper Mountain Consolidated Md | 5,785 | 5 ppb |
| Frisco Town Of | 4,495 | 4 ppb |
| Dillon Town Of | 3,254 | 5 ppb |
| Dillon Valley District | 3,063 | 3 ppb |
| Buffalo Mountain Md | 2,650 | 1 ppb |
| East Dillon Wd | 2,501 | 4.2 ppb |
| Keystone Ranch | 670 | 6 ppb |
| Mesa Cortina Wsd | 466 | 2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Keystone, 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 Snake River Wd 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.