Victor City Of, CO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.8 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. 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 Victor City Of
Victor City Of serves about 491 people through 500 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Teller County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0160700; phone on file: 719-689-2284. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Victor City Of's lead record
That is down 1.7 ppb from 3.5 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Victor City Of is 3.5 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2024 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2023 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.5 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. Victor City Of's 1.8 ppb sits at the 66th percentile in Colorado and the 67th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
23 other systems share Teller County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Victor City Of. 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 |
| Valley Maint Corp No 1 | 470 | 2.9 ppb |
| Westwood Lakes Wd | 450 | 2 ppb |
| Arabian Acres Md | 325 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Victor, CO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Victor, 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 Victor City Of 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.