Community Water System · PWS CO0120245
Elbert County Hwy 86 WD
Operator location Watkins, Colorado - 0% of 32 violations are health-based (lower-third health share (≤ 1%)); groundwater source; 1,040 served per SDWIS.
- 1,040
- People served (this PWS)
- 32
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 0
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Elbert County Hwy 86 WD standing, mid SDWIS violation third
0% of 32 recorded violations are health-based - lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 0% is lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Population rank #19,072 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Elbert County Hwy 86 WD lands in the middle third by violation volume (32), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,040 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is only 0% - almost all of this trail is monitoring or reporting. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #19,072 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #340 of 551
- Population · CO
- 32
- Total EPA violations on record
- 0%
- 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
- 190
- County
- Elbert
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 18
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Notice | Other | 8 | 2020 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 6 | 2021 |
| Chlorine | MR | 6 | 2022 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 3 | 2006 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 3 | 2019 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 3 | 2022 |
| Nitrate | MR | 3 | 2008 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Elbert County Hwy 86 WD has 32 recorded EPA violations, 44% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 55% carry more. 0% of this system's own violations are health-based (0 of 32), and it ranks #19,072 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)
32 Lower than most fewer violations than 55% 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 Elbert County Hwy 86 WD
0 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for CO0120245.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Water Quality Control
Nationwide peers
32 violations · 1,040 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
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 Elbert County Hwy 86 WD
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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