Ute Heights Community Ws, CO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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. 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.
Ute Heights Community Ws at a glance
Ute Heights Community Ws serves about 69 people through 31 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Chaffee County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0108925; phone on file: 719-395-2136. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Ute Heights Community Ws is 3 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 3 ppb |
How Ute Heights Community Ws 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. Ute Heights Community Ws's 1 ppb sits at the 48th percentile in Colorado and the 51st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
17 other systems share Chaffee County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Ute Heights Community Ws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Salida City Of | 5,666 | 0 (not detected) |
| Buena Vista Town Of | 3,776 | 1 ppb |
| Poncha Springs Town Of | 2,118 | 0 (not detected) |
| Buena Vista Correctional Facility | 1,700 | 3 ppb |
| Game Trail Association Inc | 480 | 1 ppb |
| Mesa Antero Subd | 250 | 2.5 ppb |
| Trail West Assoc | 249 | 1.5 ppb |
| Chateau Chaparrel Cg | 240 | 0 (not detected) |
| Glenview Owners Assoc | 195 | 0.5 ppb |
| Princeton Estates Subd | 150 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Nathrop, CO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Nathrop, 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 Ute Heights Community Ws 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.