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Valley Vista Estates, WY

Lead detected, under the action levels

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 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.

About Valley Vista Estates

Valley Vista Estates serves about 192 people through 69 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Teton County, Wyoming. EPA system ID: ID7410036; phone on file: 307-733-5881. 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 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Valley Vista Estates is 3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.

Period ending90th-percentile lead
20252 ppb
20222 ppb
20193 ppb
20162 ppb

Where this result ranks

Of the 311 Wyoming systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1 ppb; 0 are over 15 ppb right now and 16 have gone over at some point. Valley Vista Estates's 2 ppb sits at the 65th percentile in Wyoming and the 70th nationally (higher means more lead).

Nearby utilities

37 other systems share Teton County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Valley Vista Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.

SystemPeopleLatest lead
Jackson, Town Of24,7601 ppb
Ynp-Old Faithful7,7452 ppb
Ynp - Lake Village5,9254 ppb
Gtnp-Colter Bay Village4,5141 ppb
Gtnp-Jackson Lake Lodge1,8302 ppb
Rafter J Subdivision Hoa1,5003 ppb
Aspens Pines W&S District1,4002 ppb
Teton Village Water & Sewer District9062 ppb
Melody Ranch Improvement & Service Dist.9005 ppb
Spring Creek Improvement District4003 ppb

Next steps for Jackson, WY

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Jackson, WY 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 Vista Estates 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.