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Peyton Pines

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
56 people
Connections
22
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Peyton, CO
County
El Paso
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

80831

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

Copper: EPA’s file records a utility’s copper only when it exceeds the action level. The last here was 2.8 ppm, for the period ending Dec. 31, 2000. None since is on file, so it is not counted as a current finding.

Arsenic, uranium, nitrate, fluoride, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5) and chromium (total): Colorado’s own results, samples taken from Dec. 14, 2020 to Dec. 16, 2025, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the health goal2

Arsenic

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

2.6ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020

Averaged by year, the highest was 2.6 ppb, in 2020: below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. That is the only year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 3.2 ppb, in 2016.

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

0.3ppb

Highest yearly average, 2025

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.3 ppb, in 2025: below EPA’s legal limit of 30 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. That is the only year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 0.1 ppb, in 2019.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits4

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

2.0ppm

Highest sample; found in 6 of 7

2025, one sample: 2.0 ppm

The highest sample, in 2025, was 2.0 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. That was also the latest year on file, and its one sample was 2.0 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 1.4 ppm, in 2018.

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

0.25ppm

Highest yearly average, 2020

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.25 ppm, in 2020, 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 0.32 ppm, in 2016.

What handles it

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

3.8ppb

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2025

2025, one sample: 0.94 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 3.8 ppb, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 4.3 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, its one sample was 0.94 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 2.8 ppb, in 2013.

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

0.85ppb

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2025

2025: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.85 ppb, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 1.7 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

2 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Chromium (total)
  • 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 9 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Arsenic, uranium, nitrate, fluoride, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5) and chromium (total) results here are Colorado’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Peyton Pines’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 Dec. 14, 2020 to Dec. 16, 2025.

Testing your own tap

Peyton Pines’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 Peyton Pines 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 20 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

  • Pueblo Department of Public Health and Environment

    Pueblo, CO · about 50 miles

    Certified for bacteria

  • Colorado Department of Health & Environment

    Denver, CO · about 54 miles

    Certified for bacteria

All 54 certified labs for Colorado

Sources

PWSID CO0121610. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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