Veterans Administration Medical Center, WY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 10 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
About Veterans Administration Medical Center
Veterans Administration Medical Center serves about 802 people through 49 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is federally owned and draws surface water, in Sheridan County, Wyoming. EPA system ID: WY5680001; phone on file: 307-675-3416. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is down 9 ppb from 19 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Veterans Administration Medical Center is 24 ppb across 15 monitoring periods, 5 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 ppb |
| 2024 | 19 ppb over 15 |
| 2024 | 17 ppb over 15 |
| 2023 | 15 ppb over 10 |
| 2023 | 3 ppb |
| 2022 | 24 ppb over 15 |
| 2021 | 3 ppb |
| 2021 | 21 ppb over 15 |
| 2021 | 9 ppb |
| 2020 | 21 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2018 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2018 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 12 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 6 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. Veterans Administration Medical Center's 10 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Wyoming and the 97th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Sheridan County
5 other systems share Sheridan County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Veterans Administration Medical Center. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sheridan, City Of | 22,700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ranchester, Town Of | 1,297 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dayton, Town Of | 957 | 3 ppb |
| Downer Neighborhood I&S District | 400 | 0 (not detected) |
| Clearmont, Town Of | 116 | 2.5 ppb |
Next steps for Sheridan, WY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Sheridan, 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 Veterans Administration Medical Center 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.