Torrington Municipal Water Dept, City Of, WY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5 ppb (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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Torrington Municipal Water Dept, City Of serves about 6,847 people through 2,763 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Goshen County, Wyoming. EPA system ID: WY5600164; phone on file: 307-532-2012. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 5 ppb from 10 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Torrington Municipal Water Dept, City Of is 11 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 5 ppb |
| 2025 | 10 ppb |
| 2022 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2019 | 7 ppb |
| 2016 | 7 ppb |
Against other Wyoming systems
Of the 311 Wyoming systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1 ppb; 0 are over 15 ppb right now and 16 have gone over at some point. Torrington Municipal Water Dept, City Of's 5 ppb sits at the 95th percentile in Wyoming and the 91st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
9 other systems share Goshen County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Torrington Municipal Water Dept, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lingle, Town Of | 486 | 1 ppb |
| South Torrington Water District | 450 | 4 ppb |
| La Grange, Town Of | 448 | 4 ppb |
| Fort Laramie, Town Of | 230 | 5 ppb |
| Yoder, Town Of | 131 | 1 ppb |
| Dillman Estates | 100 | 1 ppb |
| Stone Creek Hoa | 100 | 7 ppb |
| Cottonwood Acres | 95 | 1 ppb |
| Potlatch Trailer Court | 70 | 3 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Torrington, WY 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 Torrington Municipal Water Dept, City Of 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.