Turkey Canon Ranch Wd, CO
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.5 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.
Turkey Canon Ranch Wd at a glance
Turkey Canon Ranch Wd serves about 138 people through 53 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in El Paso County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0121841; phone on file: 719-492-8335. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.5 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Turkey Canon Ranch Wd is 16.1 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 16.1 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 2 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. Turkey Canon Ranch Wd's 1.5 ppb sits at the 62nd percentile in Colorado and the 63rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
69 other systems share El Paso County; 18 of them have a higher latest lead result than Turkey Canon Ranch Wd. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Colorado Springs Utilities | 464,111 | 5.7 ppb |
| Us Department Of The Army Fort Carson | 48,000 | 10.4 ppb |
| Cherokee Md | 29,610 | 2 ppb |
| Widefield Wsd | 27,640 | 1.9 ppb |
| Fountain City Of | 25,130 | 4.4 ppb |
| Security Water District | 20,000 | 1.9 ppb |
| Woodmoor Wsd | 18,031 | 0 (not detected) |
| Us Air Force Academy | 16,876 | 0.6 ppb |
| Woodmen Hills Md | 13,888 | 0 (not detected) |
| Meridian Service Md | 12,760 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Colorado Springs, 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 Turkey Canon Ranch Wd 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. More in what a past exceedance means today.