Spring Canyon Wsd, CO
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 15 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
About Spring Canyon Wsd
Spring Canyon Wsd serves about 2,320 people through 565 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 Larimer County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0135721; phone on file: 970-217-2456. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 11 ppb from 4 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Spring Canyon Wsd is 20 ppb across 15 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 ppb over 10 |
| 2024 | 4 ppb |
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 3 ppb |
| 2021 | 7 ppb |
| 2021 | 4 ppb |
| 2020 | 5 ppb |
| 2020 | 6.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 5 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.7 ppb |
| 2018 | 5.4 ppb |
| 2018 | 8 ppb |
| 2017 | 20 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 9 ppb |
| 2016 | 3 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. Spring Canyon Wsd's 15 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in Colorado and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Larimer County
44 other systems share Larimer County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Spring Canyon Wsd. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ft Collins City Of | 179,901 | 2.8 ppb |
| Loveland City Of | 91,077 | 3.3 ppb |
| Ft Collins Loveland Wd | 63,532 | 2 ppb |
| East Larimer County Wd | 27,944 | 3.9 ppb |
| Csu Main And West Housing Campus | 27,375 | 8 ppb |
| Little Thompson Wd | 25,654 | - |
| Estes Park Town Of | 16,722 | 1.4 ppb |
| Berthoud Town Of | 14,211 | 10 ppb |
| Wellington Town Of | 11,720 | 3.7 ppb |
| Northern Colorado Wa | 4,675 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Fort Collins, CO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Fort Collins, 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 Spring Canyon Wsd 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. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.