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Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS CO0241186

Colowyo Coal Company

Operator location Denver, Colorado - 36% of 145 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 500 served per SDWIS.

500
People served (this PWS)
145
EPA violations (this PWS)
52
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Colowyo Coal Company standing, high SDWIS violation third

36% of 145 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 36% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #28,780 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Colowyo Coal Company sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (145), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (500; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 36% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#28,780 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#548 of 551
Population · CO
145
Total EPA violations on record
36%
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
Private
Connections
6
County
Moffat
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
34
Monitoring Violations
88
Treatment Tech Violations
18

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
TTHM MCL 25 2024
Surface Water Treatment Rule TT 18 2003
Coliform (TCR) MR 10 2012
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MCL 9 2005
Chlorine MR 9 2022
Nitrate MR 7 2007
Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 6 2002
Arsenic MR 4 2007
Cadmium MR 4 2007
Chromium MR 4 2007
Nickel MR 4 2007
Selenium MR 4 2007
Fluoride MR 4 2007
Barium MR 4 2007
Mercury MR 4 2007
Thallium, Total MR 4 2007
Beryllium, Total MR 4 2007
Antimony, Total MR 4 2007
Lead and Copper Rule MR 3 2011
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 3 2022
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 3 2025
TTHM MR 3 2025

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Colowyo Coal Company has 145 recorded EPA violations, 80% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 19% carry more. 36% of this system's own violations are health-based (52 of 145), and it ranks #28,780 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)

145 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

Health-based violations on Colowyo Coal Company

52 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for CO0241186.

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

Nationwide peers

145 violations · 500 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.

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Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

4 peers

What to do with Colowyo Coal Company

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