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Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS CO0230225

Conifer High School

Operator location Lakewood, Colorado - 42% of 48 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 2,350 served per SDWIS.

2,350
People served (this PWS)
48
EPA violations (this PWS)
20
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Conifer High School standing, mid SDWIS violation third

42% of 48 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 42% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #12,420 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Conifer High School lands in the middle third by violation volume (48), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 2,350 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 42% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#12,420 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#232 of 551
Population · CO
48
Total EPA violations on record
42%
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
Non-Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
Local
Connections
5
County
Jefferson
School/Daycare
Yes
MCL Violations
20
Monitoring Violations
23
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MCL 20 2024
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 7 2024
Public Notice Other 5 2024
Coliform (TCR) MR 4 2007
Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 3 2016
Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 3 2016
TTHM MR 3 2018
Dalapon MR 3 2020

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Conifer High School has 48 recorded EPA violations, 55% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 44% carry more. 42% of this system's own violations are health-based (20 of 48), and it ranks #12,420 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)

48 Around the middle fewer violations than 44% 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 Conifer High School

20 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for CO0230225.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Water Quality Control

Nationwide peers

48 violations · 2,350 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Conifer High 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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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater