Community Water System · PWS CO0134900
Van Den Berg MD
Operator location Ignacio, Colorado - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 41 people served; 373 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.
- 41
- People served (this PWS)
- 373
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 15
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Van Den Berg MD standing, high SDWIS violation third
41 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 4% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Van Den Berg MD sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (373), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (41; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 4% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 373
- Total EPA violations on record
- 4%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 41
- 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
- 23
- County
- La Plata
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 5
- Monitoring Violations
- 325
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 10
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 57 | 2014 |
| Chlorine | MR | 31 | 2025 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 24 | 2008 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 16 | 2025 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 10 | 2025 |
| TTHM | MR | 10 | 2025 |
| Nitrate | MR | 9 | 2007 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 8 | 2010 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 6 | 2002 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 4 | 1993 |
| Fluoride | MR | 4 | 2007 |
| Arsenic | MR | 4 | 2007 |
| Barium | MR | 4 | 2007 |
| Cadmium | MR | 4 | 2007 |
| Mercury | MR | 4 | 2007 |
| Nickel | MR | 4 | 2007 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 4 | 2007 |
| Selenium | MR | 4 | 2007 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 4 | 2005 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 4 | 2005 |
| Dalapon | MR | 4 | 2005 |
| Diquat | MR | 4 | 2005 |
| Endothall | MR | 4 | 2005 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 4 | 2005 |
| Simazine | MR | 4 | 2005 |
| Dinoseb | MR | 4 | 2005 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 4 | 2005 |
| Aldicarb sulfone | MR | 4 | 2005 |
| Aldicarb | MR | 4 | 2005 |
| LASSO | MR | 4 | 2005 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Van Den Berg MD has 373 recorded EPA violations, 93% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 7% carry more. 4% of this system's own violations are health-based (15 of 373), 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)
373 Higher than most more violations than 93% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Population served record for Van Den Berg MD
EPA SDWIS lists 41 people served and 23 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Water Quality Control
Nationwide peers
373 violations · 41 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 Van Den Berg MD
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