Community Water System · PWS CO0121650
Prairie Estates
Operator location Calhan, Colorado - 0% of 124 violations are health-based (lower-third health share (≤ 1%)); groundwater source; 220 served per SDWIS.
- 220
- People served (this PWS)
- 124
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 0
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Prairie Estates standing, high SDWIS violation third
0% of 124 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%).
The verdict
Prairie Estates sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (124), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (220; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. 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.
- 124
- Total EPA violations on record
- 0%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 220
- 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
- 84
- County
- El Paso
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 104
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 15 | 2020 |
| Nitrate | MR | 12 | 2009 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 11 | 2009 |
| Chlorine | MR | 11 | 2009 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 10 | 2017 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 5 | 1995 |
| Nitrate-Nitrite | MR | 4 | 1996 |
| Nitrite | MR | 4 | 1996 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 3 | 2006 |
| TTHM | MR | 3 | 2006 |
| Benzene | MR | 2 | 1991 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 2 | 1991 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 2 | 1991 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 2 | 1991 |
| 1,2-DIBROMO-3-CHLOROPROPANE | MR | 2 | 2014 |
| Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) | MR | 2 | 2014 |
| Chlordane | MR | 2 | 2014 |
| Gross Beta Particle Activity | MR | 2 | 1986 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 2 | 1991 |
| ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE | MR | 2 | 2014 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 2 | 1991 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 2 | 1991 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 2 | 2014 |
| OXAMYL | MR | 1 | 2014 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 1 | 2014 |
| Dinoseb | MR | 1 | 2014 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 1 | 2014 |
| Dalapon | MR | 1 | 2014 |
| Aldicarb sulfoxide | MR | 1 | 2014 |
| Aldicarb | MR | 1 | 2014 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Prairie Estates has 124 recorded EPA violations, 77% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 22% carry more. 0% of this system's own violations are health-based (0 of 124), 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)
124 Higher than most more violations than 77% 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 Prairie Estates
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 CO0121650.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Water Quality Control
Nationwide peers
124 violations · 220 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 Prairie Estates
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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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.