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Community Water System · PWS CO0145450

Manzanola Town Of

Operator location Manzanola, Colorado - 75% of 371 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 497 served per SDWIS.

497
People served (this PWS)
371
EPA violations (this PWS)
280
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Manzanola Town Of standing, high SDWIS violation third

75% of 371 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 75% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

Manzanola Town Of sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (371), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (497; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 75% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

371
Total EPA violations on record
75%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
497
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
Local
Connections
218
County
Otero
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
276
Monitoring Violations
78
Treatment Tech Violations
4

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Combined Radium (-226 and -228) MCL 129 2024
Combined Uranium MCL 117 2025
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MCL 24 2024
Public Notice Other 11 2025
Combined Uranium MR 10 2024
Coliform (TCR) MR 8 2009
Lead and Copper Rule MR 7 2023
Combined Radium (-226 and -228) MR 7 2024
Coliform (TCR) MCL 6 2003
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MR 6 2024
Groundwater Rule TT 4 2024
Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule MR 4 2016
Arsenic MR 3 1999
Mercury MR 3 1999
Nickel MR 3 1999
Chlorine MR 3 2009
Antimony, Total MR 3 1999
Selenium MR 3 1999
Cadmium MR 3 1999
Chromium MR 3 1999
Beryllium, Total MR 3 1999
Fluoride MR 3 1999
Thallium, Total MR 3 1999
Barium MR 3 1999

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Manzanola Town Of has 371 recorded EPA violations, 93% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 7% carry more. 75% of this system's own violations are health-based (280 of 371), 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)

371 Higher than most more violations than 93% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more water systems. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Health-based violations on Manzanola Town Of

280 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for CO0145450.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Water Quality Control

Nationwide peers

371 violations · 497 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.

4 peers

What to do with Manzanola Town Of

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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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater