Community Water System · PWS CO0115601
Paonia Town Of
Operator location Paonia, Colorado - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 574 EPA violations; surface water source; 2,499 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 2,499
- People served (this PWS)
- 574
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 31
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Paonia Town Of standing, high SDWIS violation third
574 EPA SDWIS violations on record - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 5% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #11,986 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Paonia Town Of sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (574), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,499 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 5% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #11,986 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #219 of 551
- Population · CO
- 574
- Total EPA violations on record
- 5%
- 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
- 1,113
- County
- Delta
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 497
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 31
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 57 | 2023 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 48 | 2022 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 38 | 2020 |
| TTHM | MR | 38 | 2020 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 30 | 2025 |
| Nitrate | MR | 20 | 2018 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 17 | 2023 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 14 | 2022 |
| Public Notice | Other | 12 | 2020 |
| Arsenic | MR | 10 | 2015 |
| Barium | MR | 10 | 2015 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 10 | 2015 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 10 | 2015 |
| Mercury | MR | 10 | 2015 |
| Nickel | MR | 10 | 2015 |
| Selenium | MR | 10 | 2015 |
| Fluoride | MR | 10 | 2015 |
| Chromium | MR | 10 | 2015 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 10 | 2015 |
| Cadmium | MR | 10 | 2015 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 6 | 2015 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 6 | 2015 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 6 | 2015 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 6 | 2015 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 6 | 2015 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 6 | 2015 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 6 | 2015 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 6 | 2015 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 6 | 2015 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 6 | 2015 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Paonia Town Of has 574 recorded EPA violations, 97% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 3% carry more. 5% of this system's own violations are health-based (31 of 574), and it ranks #11,986 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)
574 Higher than most more violations than 97% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
SDWIS compliance record for Paonia Town Of
574 violations on record for CO0115601; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Water Quality Control
Nationwide peers
574 violations · 2,499 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 near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Paonia Town Of
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