Swans Nest Md, CO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.5 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.
Swans Nest Md at a glance
Swans Nest Md serves about 200 people through 39 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 Summit County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0159725; phone on file: 970-926-6060. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Swans Nest Md's lead record
That is up 1.5 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Swans Nest Md is 10 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 5.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 10 ppb |
| 2017 | 7 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. Swans Nest Md's 1.5 ppb sits at the 63rd percentile in Colorado and the 63rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
22 other systems share Summit County; 13 of them have a higher latest lead result than Swans Nest Md. 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 |
| Snake River Wd | 9,900 | 0.9 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 |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Edwards, 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 Swans Nest 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.