Community Water System · PWS CO0154518
Morrison Creek Metro District
Operator location Oak Creek, Colorado - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 800 people served; 88 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 800
- People served (this PWS)
- 88
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 1
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Morrison Creek Metro District standing, high SDWIS violation third
800 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 1% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #22,406 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Morrison Creek Metro District sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (88), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (800; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 1% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #22,406 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #423 of 551
- Population · CO
- 88
- Total EPA violations on record
- 1%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
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
- 375
- County
- Routt
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 1
- Monitoring Violations
- 87
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 15 | 2000 |
| TTHM | MR | 5 | 2018 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 5 | 2018 |
| Cadmium | MR | 4 | 2025 |
| Mercury | MR | 4 | 2025 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 4 | 2025 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 4 | 2025 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 4 | 2025 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 4 | 2007 |
| Nickel | MR | 4 | 2025 |
| Barium | MR | 4 | 2025 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 4 | 2021 |
| Diquat | MR | 4 | 2007 |
| Chlorine | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Chromium | MR | 4 | 2025 |
| Selenium | MR | 4 | 2025 |
| Arsenic | MR | 4 | 2025 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 3 | 2025 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 3 | 2025 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 1 | 1991 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Morrison Creek Metro District has 88 recorded EPA violations, 70% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 29% carry more. 1% of this system's own violations are health-based (1 of 88), and it ranks #22,406 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)
88 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
Population served record for Morrison Creek Metro District
EPA SDWIS lists 800 people served and 375 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
88 violations · 800 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 Morrison Creek Metro District
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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