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Community Water System · PWS CO0103010

Byers WSD

Operator location Byers, Colorado - 50% of 26 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,000 served per SDWIS.

1,000
People served (this PWS)
26
EPA violations (this PWS)
13
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Byers WSD standing, mid SDWIS violation third

50% of 26 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 50% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #19,518 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Byers WSD lands in the middle third by violation volume (26), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,000 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 50% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#19,518 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#351 of 551
Population · CO
26
Total EPA violations on record
50%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)

Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.

System Details

System Type
Community
Owner Type
Local
Connections
528
County
Arapahoe
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
13
Monitoring Violations
9
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MCL 13 2009
Coliform (TCR) MR 6 2002
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS RPT 3 2025
Lead and Copper Rule MR 3 2004

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Byers WSD has 26 recorded EPA violations, 38% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 61% carry more. 50% of this system's own violations are health-based (13 of 26), and it ranks #19,518 of 29,740 by population served among that same cohort.

EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus

Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)

26 Lower than most fewer violations than 61% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Health-based violations on Byers WSD

13 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for CO0103010.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Water Quality Control

Nationwide peers

26 violations · 1,000 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Byers WSD

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

  • See how every tracked system in Colorado compares on the same EPA violation measures. Colorado systems
  • Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

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