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Is Highlands Ranch, CO tap water safe?

2 utilities serve Highlands Ranch, 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

Neither of the 2 utilities serving Highlands Ranch has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and Colorado’s records.

Highlands Ranch WSD, 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 35.2 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 Highlands Ranch’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 Highlands Ranch WSD’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 Highlands Ranch

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 Highlands Ranch, 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 13 miles

    Certified for bacteria

  • SGS North America, Inc. - Wheat Ridge

    Wheat Ridge, CO · about 18 miles

    Certified for nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts, radioactivity

  • SGS North America, Inc. - Denver

    Denver, CO · about 18 miles

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

All 54 certified labs for Colorado

ZIP codes in Highlands Ranch

Which ZIP codes are in Highlands Ranch: 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.

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