Community Water System · PWS CO0158001
Julesburg Town Of
Operator location Julesburg, Colorado - 28% of 46 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,225 served per SDWIS.
- 1,225
- People served (this PWS) Middle third of systems
- 46
- EPA violations (this PWS) Middle third of systems
- 13
- Health-based (this PWS) Upper third by health-based share
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS) No UCMR5 result
Julesburg Town Of standing, mid SDWIS violation third
28% of 46 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 28% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #17,624 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Julesburg Town Of lands in the middle third by violation volume (46), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,225 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 28% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #17,624 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #316 of 551
- Population · CO
- 46
- Total EPA violations on record
- 28%
- 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
- 691
- County
- Sedgwick
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 13
- Monitoring Violations
- 14
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Notice | Other | 16 | 2025 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MCL | 12 | 2024 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 7 | 2024 |
| Nitrate | MR | 6 | 2024 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | Other | 3 | 2024 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 1 | 1991 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 1 | 1991 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Julesburg Town Of has 46 recorded EPA violations, 54% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 45% carry more. 28% of this system's own violations are health-based (13 of 46), and it ranks #17,624 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)
46 Around the middle fewer violations than 45% 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
Julesburg 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
Health-based violations on Julesburg Town Of
13 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for CO0158001.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Water Quality Control
Nationwide peers
46 violations · 1,225 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.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Julesburg Town Of
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
- See how every tracked system in Colorado compares on the same EPA violation measures. Colorado systems
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