Community Water System · PWS CO0110010
Empire Town Of
Operator location Empire, Colorado - 31% of 166 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 500 served per SDWIS.
- 500
- People served (this PWS)
- 166
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 52
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Empire Town Of standing, high SDWIS violation third
31% of 166 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 31% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #28,771 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Empire Town Of sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (166), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (500; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 31% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #28,771 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #539 of 551
- Population · CO
- 166
- Total EPA violations on record
- 31%
- 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
- 202
- County
- Clear Creek
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 82
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 52
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 45 | 2020 |
| Public Notice | Other | 16 | 2020 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 9 | 2019 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | TT | 7 | 2019 |
| Arsenic | MR | 6 | 2024 |
| Barium | MR | 6 | 2024 |
| Cadmium | MR | 6 | 2024 |
| Nickel | MR | 6 | 2024 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 6 | 2024 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 6 | 2024 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 6 | 2024 |
| E. COLI | MR | 6 | 2018 |
| Chromium | MR | 6 | 2024 |
| Selenium | MR | 6 | 2024 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 6 | 2022 |
| Mercury | MR | 6 | 2024 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | RPT | 3 | 2025 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 1 | 1991 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Empire Town Of has 166 recorded EPA violations, 83% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 17% carry more. 31% of this system's own violations are health-based (52 of 166), and it ranks #28,771 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)
166 Higher than most more violations than 83% 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 Empire Town Of
52 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for CO0110010.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Water Quality Control
Nationwide peers
166 violations · 500 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with comparable violation load
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Empire Town Of
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
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