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Town of Blanca

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
469 people
Connections
174
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Blanca, CO
County
Costilla
Owner
Local government
The ZIP code it serves

81123

The short answer

1 result is above the health goal. The worst: Uranium, above the health goal. 1 health-based violation since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Uranium, nitrate, fluoride, chromium (total), arsenic, haloacetic acids (HAA5) and total trihalomethanes (TTHM): Colorado’s own results, samples taken from July 8, 2020 to Aug. 26, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the health goal1

Uranium

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

5.0ppb

Highest yearly average, 2025

Averaged by year, the highest was 5.0 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 5.5 ppb, in 2013.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits3

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.65ppm

Highest sample; found in 7 of 7

2026, one sample: 0.34 ppm

The highest sample, in 2024, was 0.65 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2026, the latest year on file, its one sample was 0.34 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 0.45 ppm, in 2015.

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

0.26ppm

Highest yearly average, 2022

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.26 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 0.26 ppm, in 2016.

What handles it

Chromium (total)

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

4.0ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022

Averaged by year, the highest was 4.0 ppb, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 100 ppb. That is the only year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 1.7 ppb, in 2016.

What handles it

4 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Haloacetic acids (HAA5)
  • Lead
  • Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

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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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. OperatorJune 1, 2026—Resolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 6 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Uranium, nitrate, fluoride, chromium (total), arsenic, haloacetic acids (HAA5) and total trihalomethanes (TTHM) results here are Colorado’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Town of Blanca’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 July 8, 2020 to Aug. 26, 2026.

Testing your own tap

Town of Blanca’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 lab Colorado certifies closest to the area Town of Blanca 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 15 miles

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

All 54 certified labs for Colorado

Sources

PWSID CO0112100. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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