Community Water System · PWS CO0128500
La Veta Town Of
Operator location La Veta, Colorado - 28% of 125 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 850 served per SDWIS.
- 850
- People served (this PWS)
- 125
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 35
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
La Veta Town Of standing, high SDWIS violation third
28% of 125 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 #21,738 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
La Veta Town Of sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (125), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (850; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. 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.
- #21,738 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #403 of 551
- Population · CO
- 125
- 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
- 586
- County
- Huerfano
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 29
- Monitoring Violations
- 85
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 6
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 44 | 2022 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 25 | 2023 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 21 | 2012 |
| Chlorine | MR | 7 | 2012 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 7 | 2012 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 6 | 2004 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 4 | 2007 |
| Public Notice | Other | 4 | 2023 |
| TTHM | MR | 3 | 2015 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 3 | 2015 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
La Veta Town Of has 125 recorded EPA violations, 78% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 22% carry more. 28% of this system's own violations are health-based (35 of 125), and it ranks #21,738 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)
125 Higher than most more violations than 78% 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 La Veta Town Of
35 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for CO0128500.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Water Quality Control
Nationwide peers
125 violations · 850 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.
Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with La Veta Town Of
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