Community Water System · PWS CO0145660
South Side WA
Operator location La Junta, Colorado - 46% of 120 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 44 served per SDWIS.
- 44
- People served (this PWS)
- 120
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 55
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
South Side WA standing, high SDWIS violation third
46% of 120 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 46% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
South Side WA sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (120), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (44; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 46% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 120
- Total EPA violations on record
- 46%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 44
- 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
- 25
- County
- Otero
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 49
- Monitoring Violations
- 31
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 6
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MCL | 43 | 2024 |
| Public Notice | Other | 22 | 2025 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 10 | 2024 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 6 | 2024 |
| E. COLI | MR | 6 | 2025 |
| Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule | TT | 6 | 2025 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 6 | 2007 |
| TTHM | MR | 5 | 2023 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 5 | 2023 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 5 | 2025 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | Other | 3 | 2023 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
South Side WA has 120 recorded EPA violations, 77% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 23% carry more. 46% of this system's own violations are health-based (55 of 120), 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)
120 Higher than most more violations than 77% 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 South Side WA
55 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for CO0145660.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Water Quality Control
Nationwide peers
120 violations · 44 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 South Side WA
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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