Community Water System · PWS CO0146592
Elk Meadows Estates
Operator location Ridgway, Colorado - 31% of 90 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 230 served per SDWIS.
- 230
- People served (this PWS)
- 90
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 28
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Elk Meadows Estates standing, high SDWIS violation third
31% of 90 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 31% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Elk Meadows Estates sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (90), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (230; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 31% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 90
- Total EPA violations on record
- 31%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 230
- 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
- 108
- County
- Ouray
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 51
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 28
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 28 | 2003 |
| Nitrate | MR | 5 | 1993 |
| Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule | MR | 4 | 2016 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 4 | 2010 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 3 | 1995 |
| Arsenic | MR | 3 | 2005 |
| Cadmium | MR | 3 | 2005 |
| Mercury | MR | 3 | 2005 |
| Nickel | MR | 3 | 2005 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 3 | 2005 |
| Chromium | MR | 3 | 2005 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 3 | 2005 |
| Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 3 | 2008 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 3 | 2005 |
| Barium | MR | 3 | 2005 |
| Selenium | MR | 3 | 2005 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | RPT | 2 | 2025 |
| Chlorine | MR | 2 | 2006 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Elk Meadows Estates has 90 recorded EPA violations, 71% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 29% carry more. 31% of this system's own violations are health-based (28 of 90), 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)
90 Around the middle fewer violations than 29% 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 Elk Meadows Estates
28 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for CO0146592.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Water Quality Control
Nationwide peers
90 violations · 230 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 Elk Meadows Estates
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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