Us Department Of The Army Fort Carson, CO
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 10.4 ppb (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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Us Department Of The Army Fort Carson at a glance
Us Department Of The Army Fort Carson serves about 48,000 people through 22,763 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is federally owned and draws surface water, in El Paso County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0221445; phone on file: 719-725-8094. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Us Department Of The Army Fort Carson's lead record
That is up 4 ppb from 6.4 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Us Department Of The Army Fort Carson is 10.4 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 10.4 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 6.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 4.7 ppb |
| 2019 | 7.7 ppb |
| 2018 | 4.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 5.2 ppb |
| 2016 | 7.4 ppb |
How Us Department Of The Army Fort Carson 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. Us Department Of The Army Fort Carson's 10.4 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Colorado and the 97th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
69 other systems share El Paso County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Us Department Of The Army Fort Carson. 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 |
| 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) |
| Manitou Springs City Of | 6,938 | 2 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Fort Carson, 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 Us Department Of The Army Fort Carson 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. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.