Community Water System · PWS CO0145210
Fowler Town Of
Operator location Fowler, Colorado - 61% of 160 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 1,169 served per SDWIS.
- 1,169
- People served (this PWS)
- 160
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 97
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Fowler Town Of standing, high SDWIS violation third
61% of 160 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 61% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #18,146 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Fowler Town Of sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (160), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,169 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 61% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #18,146 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #324 of 551
- Population · CO
- 160
- Total EPA violations on record
- 61%
- 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
- 796
- County
- Otero
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 92
- Monitoring Violations
- 54
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 5
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Selenium | MCL | 57 | 2010 |
| TTHM | MCL | 12 | 2014 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MCL | 12 | 2024 |
| Nitrate | MR | 11 | 2018 |
| TTHM | MR | 9 | 2020 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 9 | 2020 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 6 | 1994 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 6 | 2025 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 6 | 2001 |
| E. COLI | MR | 6 | 2017 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 5 | 2016 |
| Nitrate | MCL | 5 | 2010 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | Other | 3 | 2019 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 3 | 2025 |
| Selenium | MR | 2 | 2006 |
| Public Notice | Other | 2 | 2022 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 2 | 2025 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Fowler Town Of has 160 recorded EPA violations, 82% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 18% carry more. 61% of this system's own violations are health-based (97 of 160), and it ranks #18,146 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)
160 Higher than most more violations than 82% 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 Fowler Town Of
97 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for CO0145210.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Water Quality Control
Nationwide peers
160 violations · 1,169 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 near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Fowler Town Of
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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