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Elbert WSD

What EPA’s and Colorado’s records show in this utility’s water: nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals; lead and copper; and violations since 2016, with the certification that handles each result.

Serves
300 people
Connections
104
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Elbert, CO
County
Elbert
Owner
Local government
The ZIP code it serves

80106

The short answer

2 results are above the health goal. The worst: Arsenic, above the health goal. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Arsenic, nitrate, fluoride, chromium (total), total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and haloacetic acids (HAA5): Colorado’s own results, samples taken from April 8, 2020 to Aug. 3, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Uranium: EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from March 28, 2016 to March 28, 2016. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Above the health goal2

Arsenic

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

6.0ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2025

2025, one sample: 6.0 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 6.0 ppb, in 2022: below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. In 2025, the latest year on file, its one sample was 6.0 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 5.0 ppb, in 2012.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction”

Uranium

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

0.6ppb

Highest yearly average, 2016

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.6 ppb, in 2016: below EPA’s legal limit of 30 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. That is the only year on file.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits4

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.8ppm

Highest sample; found in 7 of 8

2026, one sample: 0.8 ppm

The highest sample, in 2022, was 0.8 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2026, the latest year on file, its one sample was 0.8 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 0.7 ppm, in 2019.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.22ppm

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2025

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.22 ppm, in 2025, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 0.85 ppm, in 2012.

What handles it

Chromium (total)

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

2.0ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2025

2025: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 2.0 ppb, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 100 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample.

What handles it

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

1.2ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.2 ppb, in 2023, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 32.7 ppb, in 2015.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
2 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Haloacetic acids (HAA5)
  • Lead

What handles it

A certification covers specific claims, not a whole standard. Look for these claims on the certifier’s listing, not the box. Wording varies a little: NSF writes “Lead Reduction,” WQA just “Lead.”

  • NSF/ANSI 53

    Claim: Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction

    For: Arsenic

    Other certifiers’ wording: Arsenic (III) (50 ppb influent level)

  • NSF/ANSI 58

    Claims: Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction, Uranium

    For: Arsenic, Uranium

    Other certifiers’ wording: Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=300 ppb Reduction; Arsenic (V) (300 ppb influent level)

At the tap, or for the whole house?

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Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 12 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Arsenic, nitrate, fluoride, chromium (total), total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and haloacetic acids (HAA5) results here are Colorado’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Uranium comes from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. Elbert WSD’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has newer results for those and the contaminants this page does not show.

  • Your own plumbing. Lead results are the 90th percentile across homes the utility samples. Your home’s service line, solder and fixtures decide yours. A certified lab test is the only way to know.

  • What it means for your health. This page reports what the records show and EPA’s limits and goals; it is not medical advice. If you are worried about a health effect, talk to a doctor or your local health department.

  • Anything after the latest data. SDWIS data is from 2026 Q3; UCMR 5 didn’t sample this utility; Colorado’s results run from April 8, 2020 to Aug. 3, 2026; EPA’s compliance samples are from March 28, 2016 to March 28, 2016.

Testing your own tap

Elbert WSD’s results are for the water it sends out. What your own service line, solder and fixtures add shows up only in a test of your tap, by a lab Colorado certifies.

The 3 labs Colorado certifies closest to the area Elbert WSD serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • El Paso County Health Department

    Colorado Springs, CO · about 27 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

  • Colorado Department of Health & Environment

    Denver, CO · about 42 miles

    Certified for bacteria

  • SGS North America, Inc. - Denver

    Denver, CO · about 45 miles

    Certified for nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics

All 54 certified labs for Colorado

Sources

PWSID CO0120005. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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