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Mesa County, Colorado

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet CO077 · Mesa County 37 sys · 2,022 viol · #394/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-TOP · BELOW-PEER · PFAS-CLEAN · SRC-SW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 73.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 5.7% health
  • RANK-TOP #394/3254
  • BELOW-PEER 2.0 pp cleaner
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 62%
  • SYS-SMALL 37 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Arapahoe County (+ 2 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Mesa County ranks #394 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #11 of 64 counties in Colorado. See methodology · corpus placement.

Mesa County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 73.0% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 5.7% 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 #394 of 3,254 · #11 of 64 in Colorado.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Mesa County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Broomfield · lowest Arapahoe · near 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
Ute Wcd 91,186 19 Clean
Clifton WD 34,500 27 Clean
Grand Junction City Of 26,000 22 Clean
Palisade Town Of 3,060 438 -
Debeque Town Of 911 307 -
Midlands Village 893 16 -
Candlewood Park 800 10 -
Collbran Town Of 678 23 -
Kannah Creek 435 97 -
Grand Mesa MD 2 426 61 -
Plateau Valley School Dist 50 386 47 -
Paradise Park MHP 375 0 -
Gateway Canyons WS 370 253 -
Mesa WSD 330 93 -
Colorado Ntnl Monument Lat 2 322 37 -
Picture Ranch MHP 220 0 -
Rose Park MHP 220 0 -
Western Hills MHP 213 12 -
Big Creek Cg 208 0 -
Garfield Estates MHP 178 0 -
Vega Sp Early Settlers Cg 154 21 -
Vineyards Mhc 150 0 -
Twin Peaks Bible Camp 150 40 -
Westlake MHP 116 0 -
Vega State Park Oak Point 108 27 -
Mesa Lakes Lodge and Resort 107 128 -
Valley Ranch Supply 98 25 -
Gateway General Store and Community WS 76 0 -
Gateway School 75 10 -
Vega Lodge 75 61 -
Jumbo Cg 75 16 -
Vega State Park Aspen Grove 73 3 -
Twin Rivers MHP, LLC 67 38 -
Camp Kiwanis Boy Scout Camp 62 91 -
Little Park Water Coop 51 0 -
Park Place MHP 35 0 -
Sunset Lake Summer Home Owners 32 100 -

Compare beyond Colorado

Lower-flagged peers for Mesa County

Cross-state counties nearest Mesa County on flagged-system share (73.0%) and cumulative violation count (2,022). 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

Read our methodology · Check your water system - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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

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