Community Water System · PWS CO0130842
Wheat Ridge Water District
Operator location Wheat Ridge, Colorado - 100% of 4 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 20,000 served per SDWIS.
- 20,000
- People served (this PWS)
- 4
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 4
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Wheat Ridge Water District standing, low SDWIS violation third
100% of 4 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 100% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #2,710 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Wheat Ridge Water District is in the lower third by violation count (4; lower-third violation load (≤ 21 violations)). A low count does not mean the system is unmonitored - monitoring and reporting violations still appear in SDWIS. Population served is large (20,000; larger served population (> 3,309)), so household exposure scale sits behind the violation mix. Health-based share is 100% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #2,710 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #59 of 551
- Population · CO
- 4
- Total EPA violations on record
- 100%
- 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
- 5,838
- County
- Jefferson
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 0
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 4
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule | TT | 4 | 2017 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Wheat Ridge Water District has 4 recorded EPA violations, 8% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 90% carry more. 100% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 4), and it ranks #2,710 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)
4 Among the lowest violation counts fewer violations than 90% 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 Wheat Ridge Water District
4 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for CO0130842.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Water Quality Control
Nationwide peers
4 violations · 20,000 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with similarly light violation ledgers
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
- Odawa Casino Mackinaw EPA Region 5 — Tribal Water Systems 4violations
- Whitetail Crossing Casino EPA Region 5 — Tribal Water Systems 4violations
- Acoma Sky City Travel Center Express EPA Region 6 — Tribal Water Systems 4violations
- Hard Rock Fire Mountain Water System EPA Region 9 — Tribal Water Systems 4violations
Cross-state systems with similar served population
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Wheat Ridge Water District
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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