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Prairie View Poa

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
175 people
Connections
69
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Watkins, CO
County
Adams
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

80137

The short answer

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

What handles it

What was found

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 2020 to 2025.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), fluoride, haloacetic acids (HAA5), chromium (total), arsenic and nitrate: Colorado’s own results, samples taken from Feb. 26, 2020 to Aug. 23, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Uranium: EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from Sept. 23, 2019 to Sept. 23, 2019. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Above the health goal1

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the health goal

0.5ppb

90th percentile, 2025

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 0.5 ppb, below EPA’s action level of 15 ppb. The action level drops to 10 ppb on Nov. 1, 2027. EPA’s health goal for lead is zero.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits4

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

37.5ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2023

2023, one sample: 36.4 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 37.5 ppb, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 37.9 ppb. In 2023, the latest year on file, its one sample was 36.4 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 93.4 ppb, in 2013, and EPA recorded a violation in 2014.

What handles it

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

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

1.8ppm

Highest yearly average, 2022

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.8 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 1.9 ppm, in 2016.

What handles it

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

14.2ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2023

2023, one sample: 9.5 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 14.2 ppb, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 17.7 ppb. In 2023, the latest year on file, its one sample was 9.5 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 60 ppb, in 2013, and EPA recorded a violation in 2014.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Chromium (total)

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

3.0ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2024

2024, one sample: 2.0 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 3.0 ppb, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 100 ppb. In 2024, the latest year on file, its one sample was 2.0 ppb.

What handles it

3 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Nitrate
  • 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.

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Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 6 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), fluoride, haloacetic acids (HAA5), chromium (total), arsenic and nitrate 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. Prairie View Poa’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 Feb. 26, 2020 to Aug. 23, 2026; EPA’s compliance samples are from Sept. 23, 2019 to Sept. 23, 2019.

Testing your own tap

Prairie View Poa’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 Prairie View Poa 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 13 miles

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

  • Colorado Department of Health & Environment

    Denver, CO · about 16 miles

    Certified for bacteria

  • Colorado Analytical Laboratory - Commerce City

    Commerce City, CO · about 18 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 CO0101125. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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