Westwood Lakes Wd, CO
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2023). 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.
Who runs the water here
Westwood Lakes Wd serves about 450 people through 148 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 groundwater, in Teller County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0160750. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Westwood Lakes Wd's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Westwood Lakes Wd is 20.2 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2017 | 20.2 ppb over 15 |
How Westwood Lakes Wd 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. Westwood Lakes Wd's 2 ppb sits at the 71st percentile in Colorado and the 71st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
23 other systems share Teller County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Westwood Lakes Wd. 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 |
| Valley Maint Corp No 1 | 470 | 2.9 ppb |
| Arabian Acres Md | 325 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Woodland Park, CO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Woodland Park, 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 Westwood Lakes Wd 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.