Community Water System · PWS CO0157500
Norwood Water Commission
Operator location Norwood, Colorado - 48% of 387 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 1,700 served per SDWIS.
- 1,700
- People served (this PWS)
- 387
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 184
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Norwood Water Commission standing, high SDWIS violation third
48% of 387 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 48% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #14,883 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Norwood Water Commission sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (387), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,700 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 48% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #14,883 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #272 of 551
- Population · CO
- 387
- Total EPA violations on record
- 48%
- 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
- 795
- County
- San Miguel
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 125
- Monitoring Violations
- 198
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 59
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | MCL | 103 | 2014 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 38 | 2002 |
| CARBON, TOTAL | TT | 21 | 2008 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 16 | 2025 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 15 | 2006 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 9 | 2000 |
| E. COLI | MR | 9 | 2018 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 8 | 2025 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 7 | 2003 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 5 | 2011 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 5 | 2011 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 5 | 2011 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 5 | 2011 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 5 | 2011 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 5 | 2011 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 5 | 2011 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 5 | 2011 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 5 | 2011 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 5 | 2011 |
| Toluene | MR | 5 | 2011 |
| Styrene | MR | 5 | 2011 |
| Chloramine | MR | 5 | 2025 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 5 | 2011 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 5 | 2011 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 5 | 2011 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 5 | 2011 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 5 | 2011 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 5 | 2011 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 5 | 2011 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 5 | 2011 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Norwood Water Commission has 387 recorded EPA violations, 93% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 7% carry more. 48% of this system's own violations are health-based (184 of 387), and it ranks #14,883 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)
387 Higher than most more violations than 93% 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 Norwood Water Commission
184 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for CO0157500.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Water Quality Control
Nationwide peers
387 violations · 1,700 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 near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Norwood Water Commission
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