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Summit County, Colorado

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet CO117 · Summit County 42 sys · 4,364 viol · #626/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 88.1% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 2.3% health
  • RANK-TOP #626/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.1 pp
  • PFAS-MID 40.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 69%
  • SYS-MID 42 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Saguache County (+ 0.1 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Summit County ranks #626 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #14 of 64 counties in Colorado. See methodology · corpus placement.

Summit County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 88.1% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 2.3% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 40.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #626 of 3,254 · #14 of 64 in Colorado.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Summit County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Broomfield · lowest Moffat · near Saguache · near Kiowa · highest 66.7% 87.5% 87.5% 88.1% 88.2% 89.3% 100%

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

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Lower-flagged peers for Summit County

Cross-state counties nearest Summit County on flagged-system share (88.1%) and cumulative violation count (4,364). 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.

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Similar violation load

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

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

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