The Meadows, CO
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About The Meadows
The Meadows serves about 758 people through 306 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Arapahoe County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0103504; phone on file: 720-234-3734. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for The Meadows is 0 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
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. The Meadows's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 25th percentile in Colorado and the 25th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
28 other systems share Arapahoe County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than The Meadows. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Aurora City Of | 533,407 | 4.7 ppb |
| East Cherry Creek Valley Wsd | 66,130 | 0 (not detected) |
| Englewood City Of | 59,904 | 5 ppb |
| Southgate Wsd | 55,000 | - |
| Southwest Metropolitan Wsd | 48,648 | - |
| Arapahoe Cnty Wwwa | 31,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Platte Canyon Wsd | 19,485 | - |
| Willows Wd | 19,000 | - |
| Cherry Creek Village Wd | 9,215 | - |
| Inverness Wsd | 8,140 | 4 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in The Meadows's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask The Meadows 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.