Trinidad Lake Ranches Poa, CO
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Trinidad Lake Ranches Poa at a glance
Trinidad Lake Ranches Poa serves about 200 people through 71 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Las Animas County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0136850; phone on file: 720-400-4086. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Trinidad Lake Ranches Poa is 0.5 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0.5 ppb |
How Trinidad Lake Ranches Poa compares
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. Trinidad Lake Ranches Poa's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 12th percentile in Colorado and the 15th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
13 other systems share Las Animas County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Trinidad Lake Ranches Poa. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Trinidad City Of | 11,400 | 0 (not detected) |
| El Moro Hoehne Pipeline Assoc | 655 | 0 (not detected) |
| Aguilar Town Of | 447 | 2 ppb |
| Santa Fe Trail Ranch Md | 360 | 0.9 ppb |
| Sunflower Valley Pipeline Assn | 312 | 0 (not detected) |
| Greetville Carbondale Water | 210 | 0.5 ppb |
| Trinidad Manufactured Home Community | 133 | 0 (not detected) |
| Branson Town Of | 131 | 2.5 ppb |
| Cokedale Town Of | 120 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kim Town Of | 116 | 1.1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Trinidad Lake Ranches Poa'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 Trinidad Lake Ranches Poa 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.