Community Water System · PWS CO0122700
Penrose WD
Operator location Penrose, Colorado - 28% of 64 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 3,149 served per SDWIS.
- 3,149
- People served (this PWS)
- 64
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 18
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Penrose WD standing, mid SDWIS violation third
28% of 64 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 28% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #10,284 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Penrose WD lands in the middle third by violation volume (64), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 3,149 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 28% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #10,284 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #193 of 551
- Population · CO
- 64
- Total EPA violations on record
- 28%
- 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
- 1,767
- County
- Fremont
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 4
- Monitoring Violations
- 42
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 14
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 14 | 2019 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 11 | 2023 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 6 | 2006 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 6 | 2019 |
| TTHM | MCL | 4 | 2014 |
| Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 3 | 2017 |
| TTHM | MR | 3 | 2022 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 3 | 2020 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 3 | 2019 |
| Benzene | MR | 1 | 1989 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 1 | 1989 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 1989 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 1 | 1989 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 1989 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 1989 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 1 | 1989 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Penrose WD has 64 recorded EPA violations, 63% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 37% carry more. 28% of this system's own violations are health-based (18 of 64), and it ranks #10,284 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)
64 Around the middle fewer violations than 37% 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 Penrose WD
18 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for CO0122700.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Water Quality Control
Nationwide peers
64 violations · 3,149 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 Penrose WD
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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