Woody Creek Metropolitan District, CO
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.5 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 Woody Creek Metropolitan District
Woody Creek Metropolitan District serves about 220 people through 62 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Pitkin County, Colorado. EPA system ID: CO0149852; phone on file: 720-363-9818. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is down 1.1 ppb from 1.6 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Woody Creek Metropolitan District is 3.5 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.3 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. Woody Creek Metropolitan District's 0.5 ppb sits at the 41st percentile in Colorado and the 43rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
25 other systems share Pitkin County; 13 of them have a higher latest lead result than Woody Creek Metropolitan District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Aspen City Of | 31,100 | 1 ppb |
| Snowmass Village Wsd | 6,353 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brush Creek Wd | 516 | 1.1 ppb |
| Wj Metro District | 324 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lazy Glen Hoa | 322 | 0 (not detected) |
| Aspen Village Md | 300 | 3 ppb |
| Starwood Metropolitan District | 300 | 0.5 ppb |
| Holland Hills Md | 225 | 1 ppb |
| Buttermilk Md | 200 | 0.3 ppb |
| Redstone Wsd | 180 | 0.8 ppb |
Next steps for Woody Creek, CO
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Woody Creek, 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 Woody Creek Metropolitan District 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.