Valley Maint Corp No 1, CO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.9 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
Valley Maint Corp No 1 serves about 470 people through 187 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Teller County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0160550; phone on file: 719-447-1777. 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 up 1.3 ppb from 1.6 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Valley Maint Corp No 1 is 9 ppb across 20 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2025 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2025 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2024 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2024 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2016 | 9 ppb |
| 2016 | 5 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. Valley Maint Corp No 1's 2.9 ppb sits at the 81st percentile in Colorado and the 80th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
23 other systems share Teller County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Valley Maint Corp No 1. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Woodland Park City Of | 8,500 | 6.2 ppb |
| Cripple Creek City Of | 2,817 | 4.4 ppb |
| Highland Lakes Wd | 875 | 2 ppb |
| Mountain Mutual Wa | 681 | 1.7 ppb |
| Divide Mpc Md No 1 | 679 | 1.2 ppb |
| Teller County Wsd | 600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Divide Water Providers Inc | 570 | 0.5 ppb |
| Victor City Of | 491 | 1.8 ppb |
| Westwood Lakes Wd | 450 | 2 ppb |
| Arabian Acres Md | 325 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Colorado Springs, CO
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 Valley Maint Corp No 1 whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1460 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.