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Garfield County, Colorado

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet CO045 · Garfield County 86 sys · 7,428 viol · #822/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-CLEAN · SRC-GW · SYS-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 90.7% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 11.5% health
  • RANK-UPPER #822/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.2 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 72%
  • SYS-MID 86 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: La Plata County (+ 0.2 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Garfield County ranks #822 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #16 of 64 counties in Colorado. See methodology · corpus placement.

Garfield County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 90.7% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 11.5% is health-based share in the middle third (≤ 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 0.0% is UCMR5 detect rate at or below the tested-pool lower third (≤ 0.0%) . Population served ranks #822 of 3,254 · #16 of 64 in Colorado.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Garfield County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Broomfield · lowest Boulder · near La Plata · near Kiowa · highest 66.7% 89.3% 90.2% 90.7% 90.9% 90.9% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Rifle City Of 9,489 195 Clean
Glenwood Springs City Of 9,428 78 Clean
Carbondale Town Of 6,700 105 Clean
New Castle Town Of 5,024 79 Clean
Battlement Mesa MD 4,100 333 Clean
Silt Town Of 3,536 209 -
Cdot No Name Rest Area 2,058 12 -
Roaring Fork WSD 1,912 208 -
Cdot Hanging Lake Rest Area 1,829 9 -
Cdot Bair Ranch Rest Area 1,407 12 -
Parachute Town Of 1,320 103 -
Apple Tree Park 1,160 251 -
Mitchell Cooper Ditch Pipeline 1,028 111 -
Cdot Grizzly Creek Rest Area 1,001 24 -
Cottonwood Springs MHP 750 105 -
Colorado Mtn College Svc 715 31 -
New Creation Church of Glenwood 499 36 -
Sunlight Mountain Resort 491 10 -
Saddleback RV 425 12 -
Elk Springs HOA 416 9 -
Westbank Ranch HOA 400 10 -
Rifle Gap State Park 356 18 -
Mountain Valley MHP 338 39 -
Valley Investment Properties 320 482 -
Cavern Springs Mhc, LLC 300 27 -
Ranch at Roaring Fork 300 302 -
Aspen Equestrian Blue Creek Ranch 300 16 -
Rifle Correctional Center 287 238 -
Rifle Falls State Park 258 48 -
Spring Creeks Ranch 252 0 -
Rifle Creek Golf Course 250 36 -
Sunlight View Www Company 234 70 -
Waldorf School 218 184 -
Oak Meadows Service Company 180 64 -
No Name Creek WS 160 25 -
Riverbend Water and Sewer Company 156 86 -
Canyon Creek Estates 140 26 -
Elk Creek Campground Inc 140 80 -
Storm King MHP 135 0 -
Pinyon Mesa HOA 125 3 -
Amis Acres 125 23 -
Panorama Ranches HOA 120 30 -
Mountain Meadows 115 35 -
Springridge Subd 110 48 -
Billings MHP 110 9 -
Mineota Estates HOA 105 116 -
Crystal Valley 100 35 -
Kings Row HOA 100 10 -
Camp Christian 100 74 -
Trappers Lake Cg 95 26 -

Compare beyond Colorado

Lower-flagged peers for Garfield County

Cross-state counties nearest Garfield County on flagged-system share (90.7%) and cumulative violation count (7,428). 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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