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Huajatolla Valley Estates Inc

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
132 people
Connections
53
Water source
Groundwater influenced by surface water
Based in
La Veta, CO
County
Huerfano
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

81055

The short answer

1 result is above EPA’s legal limit. The worst: Copper, above the action level. 1 health-based violation since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 2007 to 2020.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), fluoride, nitrate, arsenic, chromium (total) and uranium: Colorado’s own results, samples taken from Aug. 13, 2020 to Aug. 26, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the legal limit1

Copper

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the action level

1.6ppm

90th percentile, 2020

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 1.6 ppm, above EPA’s action level of 1.3 ppm.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits4

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

32.7ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026, one sample: 24.2 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 32.7 ppb, in 2025, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, its one sample was 24.2 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 56.5 ppb, in 2017.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

18.8ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026, one sample: 12.9 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 18.8 ppb, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, its one sample was 12.9 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 18.3 ppb, in 2016.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.39ppm

Highest yearly average, 2022

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.39 ppm, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. That is the only year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 0.51 ppm, in 2015.

What handles it

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.3ppm

Highest sample; found in 1 of 6

2026, one sample: 0.3 ppm

The highest sample, in 2026, was 0.3 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. That was also the latest year on file, and its one sample was 0.3 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 0.18 ppm, in 2012.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”
4 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Chromium (total)
  • Lead
  • Uranium

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?

Lead and copper usually come from pipes and fixtures inside or near your home. A whole-house system sits where water enters, so it cannot catch what your own plumbing adds after it. For those, the filter that counts is the one at the tap. How whole-house systems compare.

Filters with those claims on a certifier’s listing

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Violations since 2016

Contaminant or ruleTypePeriodMeasuredStatus
Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts RuleTreatment was not run by a certified operator as required.EPA: Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorJan. 1, 2023—Resolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 23 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), fluoride, nitrate, arsenic, chromium (total) and uranium results here are Colorado’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Huajatolla Valley Estates Inc’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 Aug. 13, 2020 to Aug. 26, 2026.

Testing your own tap

Huajatolla Valley Estates Inc’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 2 labs Colorado certifies closest to the area Huajatolla Valley Estates Inc serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Sangre De Cristo Laboratory

    Alamosa, CO · about 40 miles

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

  • Pueblo Department of Public Health and Environment

    Pueblo, CO · about 60 miles

    Certified for bacteria

All 54 certified labs for Colorado

Sources

PWSID CO0128400. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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