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Hillcrest Village MHP

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
1,505 people
Connections
602
Water source
Surface water bought from another system
Based in
Wheat Ridge, CO
County
Adams
Owner
Private
Hardness
Soft
The ZIP code it serves

80019

The short answer

1 result is above the health goal. The worst: Uranium, above the health goal. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Uranium, fluoride, haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM), arsenic, chromium (total) and nitrate: Colorado’s own results, samples taken from Jan. 29, 2020 to Aug. 10, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the health goal1

Uranium

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

1.3ppb

Highest yearly average, 2025

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.3 ppb, in 2025: below EPA’s legal limit of 30 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. Its highest single sample was 3.8 ppb. That is the only year on file.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits3

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

1.5ppm

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2024

2024 average: 1.3 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.5 ppm, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. Its highest single sample was 1.6 ppm. In 2024, the latest year on file, its three samples averaged 1.3 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 1.3 ppm, in 2017.

What handles it

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

3.6ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 3.6 ppb, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 9.1 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in any of its three samples. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 12.1 ppb, in 2017.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

2.7ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026 average: 0.39 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 2.7 ppb, in 2023, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 10.3 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, its three samples averaged 0.39 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 17.9 ppb, in 2017.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
4 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Chromium (total)
  • Lead
  • Nitrate

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.”

At the tap, or for the whole house?

These come with the water itself, so a whole-house system certified for the same claims treats every tap and shower. A filter at the tap treats drinking water for much less. How whole-house systems compare.

Filters with those claims on a certifier’s listing

None of the filters TapBuff has checked so far carry these claims. Search the certifier listings for the claim above.

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Hardness

Soft, typically 26 mg/L (1.5 grains per gallon), across 4 sampling points, in 2024.

Hardness is calcium and magnesium. EPA sets no limit for it: it shows up as scale on fixtures and in water heaters, and as soap that won’t lather. USGS calls water above 60 mg/L moderately hard, above 120 hard and above 180 very hard.

Softeners compared at 1.5 grains per gallon, salt includedSoftener or salt-free conditioner?Colorado water hardness, utility by utility

Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 3 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Uranium, fluoride, haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM), arsenic, chromium (total) and nitrate results here are Colorado’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Hillcrest Village MHP’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has 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 Jan. 29, 2020 to Aug. 10, 2026.

Testing your own tap

Hillcrest Village MHP’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 Hillcrest Village MHP serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • SGS North America, Inc. - Denver

    Denver, CO · about 8 miles

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

  • Colorado Department of Health & Environment

    Denver, CO · about 12 miles

    Certified for bacteria

  • Colorado Analytical Laboratory - Commerce City

    Commerce City, CO · about 13 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts, PFAS, radioactivity

All 54 certified labs for Colorado

Sources

PWSID CO0101085. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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