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Is Colorado City, CO tap water safe?

Colorado City MD serves Colorado City, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and Colorado’s records show for it, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

Colorado City MD serves Colorado City. In EPA’s and Colorado’s records it has 2 results above the legal limit and 3 results above the health goal, and 27 health-based violations since 2016.

The worst: Haloacetic acids (HAA5) at 122 ppb, above the legal limit.

Some homes in a town are on private wells or a small system of their own. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in Colorado City MD’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Colorado City

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 Colorado City, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Pueblo Department of Public Health and Environment

    Pueblo, CO · about 28 miles

    Certified for bacteria

  • Sangre De Cristo Laboratory

    Alamosa, CO · about 61 miles

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

  • El Paso County Health Department

    Colorado Springs, CO · about 66 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

All 54 certified labs for Colorado

ZIP codes in Colorado City

Which ZIP codes are in Colorado City: 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 Colorado City

Towns nearby with a page of their own.

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