Community Water System · PWS CO0147001
Alma Town Of
Operator location Alma, Colorado - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 460 people served; 61 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.
- 460
- People served (this PWS)
- 61
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 8
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Alma Town Of standing, mid SDWIS violation third
460 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 13% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Alma Town Of lands in the middle third by violation volume (61), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (460; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 13% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 61
- Total EPA violations on record
- 13%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 460
- 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
- 219
- County
- Park
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 41
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 8
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 16 | 2024 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 10 | 2024 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 8 | 2019 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 6 | 2006 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | Other | 4 | 2019 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 4 | 2007 |
| E. COLI | MR | 3 | 2008 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 2 | 2006 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Alma Town Of has 61 recorded EPA violations, 62% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 38% carry more. 13% of this system's own violations are health-based (8 of 61), 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)
61 Around the middle fewer violations than 38% 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 Alma Town Of
EPA SDWIS lists 460 people served and 219 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
61 violations · 460 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
What to do with Alma Town Of
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