Community Water System · PWS CO0115288
Fruitland Domestic WC
Operator location Hotchkiss, Colorado - 45% of 1,196 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 335 served per SDWIS.
- 335
- People served (this PWS)
- 1,196
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 542
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Fruitland Domestic WC standing, high SDWIS violation third
45% of 1,196 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 45% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Fruitland Domestic WC sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (1,196), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (335; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 45% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 1,196
- Total EPA violations on record
- 45%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 335
- People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
- N/A
- PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Private
- Connections
- 151
- County
- Montrose
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 13
- Monitoring Violations
- 623
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 529
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 351 | 2011 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 159 | 2010 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 86 | 2025 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 54 | 2025 |
| Chlorine | MR | 53 | 2025 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 26 | 2014 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 20 | 2025 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 13 | 2002 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 12 | 2023 |
| TTHM | MR | 12 | 2023 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 12 | 2025 |
| E. COLI | MR | 12 | 2024 |
| Arsenic | MR | 10 | 2019 |
| Barium | MR | 10 | 2019 |
| Cadmium | MR | 10 | 2019 |
| Chromium | MR | 10 | 2019 |
| Nickel | MR | 10 | 2019 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 10 | 2019 |
| Mercury | MR | 10 | 2019 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 10 | 2019 |
| Selenium | MR | 10 | 2019 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 10 | 2019 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | TT | 9 | 2025 |
| Public Notice | Other | 9 | 2025 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 6 | 2019 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 6 | 2019 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 6 | 2019 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 6 | 2019 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 6 | 2019 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 6 | 2019 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Fruitland Domestic WC has 1,196 recorded EPA violations, 99% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 1% carry more. 45% of this system's own violations are health-based (542 of 1,196), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
1,196 Higher than most more violations than 99% 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 Fruitland Domestic WC
542 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for CO0115288.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Water Quality Control
Nationwide peers
1,196 violations · 335 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.
What to do with Fruitland Domestic WC
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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