Community Water System · PWS CO0120246
Deer Creek WD
Operator location Wheat Ridge, Colorado - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 792 people served; 45 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 792
- People served (this PWS)
- 45
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 4
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Deer Creek WD standing, mid SDWIS violation third
792 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 9% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #22,798 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Deer Creek WD lands in the middle third by violation volume (45), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (792; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 9% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #22,798 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #426 of 551
- Population · CO
- 45
- Total EPA violations on record
- 9%
- 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
- Private
- Connections
- 282
- County
- Elbert
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 38
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 4
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 18 | 2013 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 8 | 2025 |
| E. COLI | MR | 4 | 2013 |
| Chlorine | MR | 4 | 2013 |
| Nitrate | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | TT | 4 | 2025 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Deer Creek WD has 45 recorded EPA violations, 54% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 46% carry more. 9% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 45), and it ranks #22,798 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)
45 Around the middle fewer violations than 46% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Population served record for Deer Creek WD
EPA SDWIS lists 792 people served and 282 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Water Quality Control
Nationwide peers
45 violations · 792 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 with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Deer Creek WD
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.