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Is Colorado Springs, CO tap water safe?

15 utilities serve Colorado Springs, 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

3 of the 15 utilities serving Colorado Springs have a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and Colorado’s records: Widefield WSD, Stratmoor Hills WSD and Garden Valley.

Colorado Springs Utilities, which serves the most people here, has 2 results above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 17 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

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 Colorado Springs’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.

5 more utilities in Colorado Springs

By EPA’s estimate, each serves fewer people in Colorado Springs than those above.

  • The Springs MHPserves 1,229 people · lists Colorado Springs among the places it serves · no health-based violations since 2016
  • Lamplighter Rhpserves 643 people · lists Colorado Springs among the places it serves · no health-based violations since 2016
  • Canyon Ridgeserves 625 people · lists Colorado Springs among the places it serves · no health-based violations since 2016
  • Crestline Manorserves 505 people · lists Colorado Springs among the places it serves · no health-based violations since 2016
  • Emerald Acres Mobile Home Parkserves 280 people · lists Colorado Springs among the places it serves · no health-based violations since 2016

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in Colorado Springs Utilities’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 Colorado Springs

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

  • El Paso County Health Department

    Colorado Springs, CO · about 4 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

  • Pueblo Department of Public Health and Environment

    Pueblo, CO · about 41 miles

    Certified for bacteria

  • Colorado Department of Health & Environment

    Denver, CO · about 59 miles

    Certified for bacteria

All 54 certified labs for Colorado

ZIP codes in Colorado Springs

Which ZIP codes are in Colorado Springs: 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 Springs

Other towns in El Paso County with a page of their own.

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