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Is Glenwood Springs, CO tap water safe?

15 utilities serve Glenwood 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.

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The short answer

3 of the 15 utilities serving Glenwood 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: Cattle Creek WUA, Teller Springs HOA and Colorado Mtn College Svc.

City of Glenwood Springs, which serves the most people here, has 1 result above the health goal. The worst: Lead at 1.0 ppb, above the health goal. 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 Glenwood Springs’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.

5 more utilities in Glenwood Springs

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

  • Westbank Mesa HOAserves 93 people · under 100 in Glenwood Springs · no health-based violations since 2016
  • Teller Springs HOAserves 84 people · under 100 in Glenwood Springs · 1 health-based violation since 2016
  • El Rocko MHPserves 80 people · under 100 in Glenwood Springs · no health-based violations since 2016
  • Fox Run Meadows HOAserves 36 people · lists Glenwood Springs among the places it serves · no health-based violations since 2016
  • Colorado Mtn College Svcserves 715 people · based in Glenwood Springs · 1 health-based violation since 2016

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in City of Glenwood Springs’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 Glenwood 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 Glenwood Springs, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Eagle River W / S District

    Avon, CO · about 42 miles

    Certified for bacteria, lead and copper, metals, radioactivity

  • ACZ Laboratories, Inc.

    Steamboat Springs, CO · about 69 miles

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

  • Routt County Env. Health Dept.

    Steamboat Springs, CO · about 69 miles

    Certified for bacteria

All 54 certified labs for Colorado

ZIP codes in Glenwood Springs

Which ZIP codes are in Glenwood 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 Glenwood Springs

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

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