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Town of Romeo

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
365 people
Connections
146
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Romeo, CO
County
Conejos
Owner
Local government
The ZIP code it serves

81148

The short answer

Nothing in EPA’s and Colorado’s records for this utility is above a health goal. That covers nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals, plus lead and copper, not everything. 1 health-based violation since 2016.

What was found

Haloacetic acids (HAA5), nitrate, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), chromium (total), arsenic and fluoride: Colorado’s own results, samples taken from Aug. 25, 2020 to Dec. 16, 2025, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Uranium: EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from Sept. 11, 2019 to Sept. 11, 2019. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Below EPA’s limits4

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

9.8ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2024

2024: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 9.8 ppb, in 2021, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 19.7 ppb. In 2024, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

1.5ppm

Highest sample; found in 6 of 6

2025, one sample: 1.3 ppm

The highest sample, in 2020, was 1.5 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2025, the latest year on file, its one sample was 1.3 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 1.5 ppm, in 2012.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

2.5ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2024

2024, one sample: 0.7 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 2.5 ppb, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 4.2 ppb. In 2024, the latest year on file, its one sample was 0.7 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 2.0 ppb, in 2019.

What handles it

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

Chromium (total)

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

2.0ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2023

2023, one sample: 2.0 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 2.0 ppb, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 100 ppb. In 2023, the latest year on file, its one sample was 2.0 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 1.0 ppb, in 2019.

What handles it

4 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Fluoride
  • Lead
  • Uranium

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. OperatorJuly 1, 2022—Resolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 46 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Haloacetic acids (HAA5), nitrate, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), chromium (total), arsenic and fluoride 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. Town of Romeo’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 Aug. 25, 2020 to Dec. 16, 2025; EPA’s compliance samples are from Sept. 11, 2019 to Sept. 11, 2019.

Testing your own tap

Town of Romeo’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 Romeo 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 23 miles

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

All 54 certified labs for Colorado

Sources

PWSID CO0111800. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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