Community Water System · PWS CO0147020
Fairplay Town Of
Operator location Fairplay, Colorado - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 909 people served; 279 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.
- 909
- People served (this PWS) Smaller third of systems
- 279
- EPA violations (this PWS) Upper third of systems
- 8
- Health-based (this PWS) Middle third by health-based share
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS) No UCMR5 result
Fairplay Town Of standing, high SDWIS violation third
909 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 3% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #20,852 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Fairplay Town Of sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (279), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (909; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 3% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #20,852 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #380 of 551
- Population · CO
- 279
- Total EPA violations on record
- 3%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
Based on EPA SDWIS violation history and UCMR5 PFAS testing only, not water taste, odor, infrastructure age, or contaminants outside the federally tracked set.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 490
- County
- Park
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 247
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 8
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Notice | Other | 10 | 2025 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 9 | 2015 |
| TTHM | MR | 9 | 2015 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 8 | 2025 |
| Chlorine | MR | 6 | 2006 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 6 | 2021 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 6 | 2025 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 5 | 1996 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 3 | 2009 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 3 | 2009 |
| Chromium | MR | 3 | 2009 |
| Nickel | MR | 3 | 2009 |
| Mercury | MR | 3 | 2009 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 3 | 2009 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 3 | 2009 |
| Endrin | MR | 3 | 2009 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 3 | 2009 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 3 | 2009 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 3 | 2009 |
| Endothall | MR | 3 | 2009 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 3 | 2009 |
| Picloram | MR | 3 | 2009 |
| Dinoseb | MR | 3 | 2009 |
| Aldicarb | MR | 3 | 2009 |
| Atrazine | MR | 3 | 2009 |
| LASSO | MR | 3 | 2009 |
| Heptachlor | MR | 3 | 2009 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 3 | 2009 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 3 | 2009 |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | MR | 3 | 2009 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Fairplay Town Of has 279 recorded EPA violations, 90% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 10% carry more. 3% of this system's own violations are health-based (8 of 279), and it ranks #20,852 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)
279 Higher than most more violations than 90% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
How many violations vs. how serious, among peer systems
Fairplay Town Of plotted against 29 peer public water systems (500+ people served), by total violation count (x) and the share of those violations that are health-based (y). The crosshair sits at this sample's own median on each axis. A high violation count does not automatically mean a serious record: most monitoring and reporting violations are minor, not health-based.
Violation volume vs. health-based share
Population served record for Fairplay Town Of
EPA SDWIS lists 909 people served and 490 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
279 violations · 909 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 with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Fairplay Town Of
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