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La Plata County, Colorado

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet CO067 · La Plata County 110 sys · 9,256 viol · #809/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 90.9% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 8.5% health
  • RANK-UPPER #809/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 70%
  • SYS-MID 110 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Yuma County (+ 0 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, La Plata County ranks #809 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #15 of 64 counties in Colorado. See methodology · corpus placement.

La Plata County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 90.9% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 8.5% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 0.0% is UCMR5 detect rate at or below the tested-pool lower third (≤ 0.0%) . Population served ranks #809 of 3,254 · #15 of 64 in Colorado.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around La Plata County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Broomfield · lowest Boulder · near La Plata · this county 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
Durango City Of 33,787 45 Clean
Animas WC 3,096 19 -
Bayfield Town Of 2,300 36 -
Forest Lakes MD 1,699 30 -
Lake Durango WA 1,577 188 -
Purgatory MD 1,364 92 -
Edgemont Ranch MD 1,200 255 -
Durango West MD No 2 930 124 -
Ignacio Town Of 800 90 -
Durango la Plata Airport 780 479 -
Durango West MD No 1 750 116 -
Elbert Creek Water Co 750 180 -
Bar D Chuckwagon 550 2 -
Purgatory Recreation 1 Powder House Rest 515 5 -
La Plata Archuleta Water District 510 7 -
Colorado Trails Ranch 434 38 -
Durango 9 R Florida Mesa School 410 67 -
El Rancho Florida MD 400 132 -
La Plata West Water Authority 354 18 -
Southwest Horizon Ranch 323 791 -
Elmore's Corner 425 Pizza 312 5 -
Durango's Cowboy Church 305 0 -
Needles Country Square LLC 285 31 -
Colvig Silver Camps 260 100 -
Homestead Trails 258 129 -
Vallecito Resort 256 21 -
Florida River Estates HOA Inc 239 77 -
Westside MHP 236 135 -
Claude Decker Subd Pipeline 220 25 -
Roadhouse Market 216 2 -
Falls Creek Ranch 215 29 -
Happy Scenes WS Inc 209 98 -
Hesperus Baptist Camp Inc 206 156 -
Olde Schoolhouse Cafe 202 30 -
Durango Regency MHP 200 86 -
Mountain Man Water Service 200 3 -
Htr Durango Campground 200 8 -
Lds Red Mesa 193 0 -
Durango 9R Sunnyside Elementary School 192 64 -
Blue Sky Ranch Inc Assoc of Owners 180 12 -
Family Dollar - Durango 155 0 -
Easy Water LLC 154 24 -
Knolls at Durango HOA 150 73 -
Narrow Gauge MHP 150 431 -
Durango North Village 150 13 -
Island Cove Park 143 15 -
Vallecito Valley Subd 143 41 -
Blue Spruce RV Park 135 44 -
Mountain River RV Park 126 0 -
Silver Pick Water 122 24 -

Compare beyond Colorado

Lower-flagged peers for La Plata County

Cross-state counties nearest La Plata County on flagged-system share (90.9%) and cumulative violation count (9,256). 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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