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Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS CO0333200

Elbert Creek Cg

Operator location Pueblo, Colorado - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 128 people served; 64 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

128
People served (this PWS)
64
EPA violations (this PWS)
12
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Elbert Creek Cg standing, mid SDWIS violation third

128 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 19% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Elbert Creek Cg lands in the middle third by violation volume (64), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (128; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 19% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

64
Total EPA violations on record
19%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
128
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
Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
Federal
Connections
2
County
Lake
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
0
Monitoring Violations
33
Treatment Tech Violations
12

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Public Notice Other 19 2022
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 14 2020
Coliform (TCR) MR 12 2002
Nitrate MR 7 2019
Revised Total Coliform Rule TT 7 2020
Groundwater Rule TT 5 2017

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Elbert Creek Cg has 64 recorded EPA violations, 63% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 37% carry more. 19% of this system's own violations are health-based (12 of 64), 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)

64 Around the middle fewer violations than 37% 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 Elbert Creek Cg

EPA SDWIS lists 128 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

64 violations · 128 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Elbert Creek Cg

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
  • Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
  • Find and compare another public water system by name or PWSID. Search systems

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