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Is Aurora, CO tap water safe?

10 utilities serve Aurora, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and Colorado’s records show for each, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

2 of the 10 utilities serving Aurora have a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and Colorado’s records: Travois HOA and Galambs Mobile Home and Rv Park.

City of Aurora, which serves the most people here, has 3 results above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 21.4 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

The water from City of Aurora is hard on average, 136 mg/L (8 grains per gallon), ranging from 87 to 198 mg/L. How Colorado’s water compares.

A town can be served by more than one utility, and some homes are on private wells. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours, and your ZIP code narrows it down. They are listed by how many people each serves in Aurora’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in City of Aurora’s water, which serves the most people here. Another utility’s report names what handles its own results.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Aurora

A utility tests the water it sends out. A test of your own tap shows what your pipes add, and on a private well it is the only test there is. It takes a lab Colorado certifies.

The 3 labs Colorado certifies closest to Aurora, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Colorado Department of Health & Environment

    Denver, CO · about 6 miles

    Certified for bacteria

  • SGS North America, Inc. - Denver

    Denver, CO · about 7 miles

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

  • Colorado Analytical Laboratory - Commerce City

    Commerce City, CO · about 14 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

ZIP codes in Aurora

Which ZIP codes are in Aurora: Census 2020 relationship files. Which utilities serve them, and how many people: EPA SDWIS and EPA’s service area map. Each utility’s results: EPA UCMR 5, EPA SDWIS, and EPA’s and the state’s compliance monitoring, as its report lists them. How they are measured: methodology. Certified labs: CDPHE certified drinking water laboratories; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

Near Aurora

Other towns in Arapahoe County with a page of their own.

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