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Arapahoe County, Colorado

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet CO005 · Arapahoe County 40 sys · 5,553 viol · #70/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-TOP · ABOVE-PEER · PFAS-HIGH · SRC-SW · SYS-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 75.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 3.6% health
  • RANK-TOP #70/3254
  • ABOVE-PEER +2.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 100.0% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 50%
  • SYS-MID 40 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Mesa County ( -2 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Arapahoe County ranks #70 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #2 of 64 counties in Colorado. See methodology · corpus placement.

Arapahoe County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 75.0% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 3.6% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 100.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #70 of 3,254 · #2 of 64 in Colorado.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Arapahoe County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Arapahoe County on % of SDWIS systems with ≥1 violation. Full ladder: /counties.

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Broomfield · lowest Arapahoe · this county Weld · near 66.7% 73% 75% 80% 83.1% 100%

Source: EPA SDWIS (county aggregates) As of 2026-05-15

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Aurora City Of 533,407 18 Detected
East Cherry Creek Valley WSD 66,130 1,783 Detected
Englewood City Of 57,332 58 Detected
Southgate WSD 55,000 0 -
Southwest Metropolitan WSD 48,648 0 -
Arapahoe Cnty Wwwa 31,000 521 Detected
Platte Canyon WSD 19,485 0 -
Willows WD 19,000 2 -
Cherry Creek Village WD 9,215 0 -
Inverness WSD 8,140 154 Detected
Glendale City Of 4,400 3 -
Rangeview MD 2,487 207 -
Deer Trail Town Of 1,648 444 -
Foxridge Farms MHP 1,440 170 -
Byers WSD 1,000 26 -
Bow Mar WSD 899 0 -
Columbine Lakes HOA 843 4 -
The Meadows 758 1 -
Woodshire East Mobile Home Park Ltd 751 3 -
Circle K No 4054 500 18 -
Arapahoe Park Horsetrack 482 14 -
Lds Strasburg 231 9 -
East Valley MD 230 39 -
Appogee Kazmira LLC 200 12 -
Travois HOA 175 858 -
Stage Run HOA 150 97 -
Cedar Village MHP 130 0 -
Meadowood Village MHP 125 10 -
Sierra Bonita Estates 122 6 -
Country Gardens MHP 115 91 -
Country Homes Land Co 100 0 -
Golden Gun Club 58 0 -
May Farms WS and Entertainment Center 57 0 -
Western Metals Recycling 45 264 -
Rolling Plains Estate 40 386 -
Raleigh House 35 6 -
Eastern Service Center 30 63 -
Galbraith Estates 26 202 -
Joint Water Purification Plant 0 84 -
Wise Project 0 0 -

Compare beyond Colorado

Lower-flagged peers for Arapahoe County

Cross-state counties nearest Arapahoe County on flagged-system share (75.0%) and cumulative violation count (5,553). In-state neighbours stay on the compliance plate above.

Similar flagged-system rate

Nearest cross-state counties by % of SDWIS systems with at least one violation on record.

4 peers

Similar violation load

Nearest cross-state counties by cumulative SDWIS violation count (all systems in the county).

4 peers
Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater

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