Tall Pines Village, CO
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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.
About Tall Pines Village
Tall Pines Village serves about 60 people through 8 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in La Plata County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0134810; phone on file: 970-759-4505. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2025 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Tall Pines Village is 27.2 ppb across 16 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.2 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0.2 ppb |
| 2020 | 0.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 27.2 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 0.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Tall Pines Village's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 3rd percentile in Colorado and the 5th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
52 other systems share La Plata County; 42 of them have a higher latest lead result than Tall Pines Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Durango City Of | 33,787 | 3.1 ppb |
| Animas Wc | 3,096 | 8.8 ppb |
| Bayfield Town Of | 2,300 | 2.7 ppb |
| Forest Lakes Md | 1,699 | 1.7 ppb |
| Lake Durango Wa | 1,577 | 0.7 ppb |
| Purgatory Md | 1,364 | 2 ppb |
| Edgemont Ranch Md | 1,200 | 1.5 ppb |
| Durango West Md No 2 | 930 | 2 ppb |
| Ignacio Town Of | 800 | 0.8 ppb |
| Durango West Md No 1 | 750 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Durango, CO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Durango, 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 Tall Pines Village 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.