Community Water System · PWS CO0234390
Happy Scenes WS Inc
Operator location Bayfield, Colorado - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 209 people served; 98 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 209
- People served (this PWS)
- 98
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 6
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Happy Scenes WS Inc standing, high SDWIS violation third
209 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
Happy Scenes WS Inc sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (98), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (209; 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.
- 98
- Total EPA violations on record
- 6%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 209
- 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
- Community
- Owner Type
- Private
- Connections
- 57
- County
- La Plata
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 6
- Monitoring Violations
- 90
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate | MR | 10 | 2009 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 8 | 1993 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 6 | 1994 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 4 | 2010 |
| Mercury | MR | 4 | 2009 |
| Nickel | MR | 4 | 2009 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 4 | 2009 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 4 | 2009 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 4 | 2009 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 4 | 2009 |
| Fluoride | MR | 4 | 2009 |
| Combined Uranium | MR | 4 | 2009 |
| Arsenic | MR | 4 | 2009 |
| Chromium | MR | 4 | 2009 |
| Cadmium | MR | 4 | 2009 |
| Barium | MR | 4 | 2009 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 4 | 2009 |
| Selenium | MR | 4 | 2009 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 3 | 2016 |
| Chlorine | MR | 3 | 2016 |
| Nitrate-Nitrite | MR | 3 | 1995 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Happy Scenes WS Inc has 98 recorded EPA violations, 73% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 27% carry more. 6% of this system's own violations are health-based (6 of 98), 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)
98 Around the middle fewer violations than 27% 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 Happy Scenes WS Inc
EPA SDWIS lists 209 people served and 57 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
98 violations · 209 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 Happy Scenes WS Inc
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