Thornton Estates, 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 Thornton Estates
Thornton Estates serves about 300 people through 208 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Adams County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0101741; phone on file: 720-234-3734. 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 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Thornton Estates is 3 ppb across 8 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) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 2 ppb |
| 2020 | 3 ppb |
| 2020 | 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. Thornton Estates's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 17th percentile in Colorado and the 18th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
62 other systems share Adams County; 33 of them have a higher latest lead result than Thornton Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Thornton City Of | 226,465 | 2.3 ppb |
| Westminster City Of | 202,078 | 1.3 ppb |
| South Adams County Wsd | 75,559 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brighton City Of | 56,304 | 2 ppb |
| Northglenn City Of | 48,927 | 1.7 ppb |
| Crestview Wsd | 23,756 | - |
| North Washington Street Wsd | 14,500 | - |
| Federal Heights City Of | 11,678 | 1.7 ppb |
| Todd Creek Village Md | 7,363 | 0.8 ppb |
| Bennett Town Of | 4,400 | 1 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Thornton Estates'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 Thornton Estates 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.