Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS CO0207151
Friends School
Operator location Boulder, Colorado - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 39 people served; 144 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 39
- People served (this PWS)
- 144
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 9
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Friends School standing, high SDWIS violation third
39 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 6% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Friends School sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (144), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (39; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 6% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 144
- Total EPA violations on record
- 6%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 39
- 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
- Non-Transient Non-Community
- Owner Type
- Private
- Connections
- 2
- County
- Boulder
- School/Daycare
- Yes
- MCL Violations
- 9
- Monitoring Violations
- 129
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 47 | 2007 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 22 | 2022 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 19 | 2020 |
| Chlorine | MR | 16 | 2020 |
| Nitrate | MR | 10 | 2009 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 9 | 2008 |
| TTHM | MR | 6 | 2019 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 6 | 2019 |
| Nitrate-Nitrite | MR | 3 | 1997 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | RPT | 3 | 2020 |
| Public Notice | Other | 2 | 2021 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Friends School has 144 recorded EPA violations, 80% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 20% carry more. 6% of this system's own violations are health-based (9 of 144), 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)
144 Higher than most more violations than 80% 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 Friends School
EPA SDWIS lists 39 people served and 2 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
144 violations · 39 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.
What to do with Friends School
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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