Community Water System · PWS CO0126188
Crested Butte Town Of
Operator location Crested Butte, Colorado - 52% of 60 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 2,440 served per SDWIS.
- 2,440
- People served (this PWS)
- 60
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 31
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Crested Butte Town Of standing, mid SDWIS violation third
52% of 60 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 52% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #12,139 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Crested Butte Town Of lands in the middle third by violation volume (60), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 2,440 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 52% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #12,139 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #225 of 551
- Population · CO
- 60
- Total EPA violations on record
- 52%
- 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
- 1,173
- County
- Gunnison
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 7
- Monitoring Violations
- 23
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 24
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 24 | 2002 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 18 | 1995 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 4 | 2012 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 4 | 2024 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 3 | 1993 |
| Mercury | MR | 3 | 2004 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 2 | 2006 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Crested Butte Town Of has 60 recorded EPA violations, 61% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 38% carry more. 52% of this system's own violations are health-based (31 of 60), and it ranks #12,139 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)
60 Around the middle fewer violations than 38% 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 Crested Butte Town Of
31 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for CO0126188.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Water Quality Control
Nationwide peers
60 violations · 2,440 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 Crested Butte Town Of
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