Drinking water quality · 2024
· Verified
· PWSID CO0121167
What's in Colorado Springs, CO tap water
Every one of the 11 core regulated contaminants reported for Colorado Springs, CO came in below its federal limit.
- !1 open monitoring or reporting violation
- !11 of 27 core regulated contaminants reported — 16 never appear in this report
- ✓Nothing over a federal limit
+How this score is calculated
Every system starts at 100. Points come off for measured levels, for the federal violation record, and for how much of the core regulated set the utility actually reported. All three inputs are the utility's own published numbers and EPA's own records.
- −0 contaminants at or above a federal limit
- −0 contaminants within 20% of a limit
- −0 open health-based violations
- −3 open monitoring / reporting violations
- −0 health-based violations resolved in the last 5 years
- −13 core regulated contaminants never reported (11/27)
A 90–100 · B 80–89 · C 70–79 · D 60–69 · F below 60. A system reporting under a third of the core set is capped at C however clean its numbers look — a short report is not a clean bill of health.
Full grading methodology, constant for constant →+17 contaminants were measured and came in below the limitShow all
| Contaminant | Measured | Federal limit |
|---|---|---|
| PFOA | 2.73 ng/L | 4 ng/L |
| TTHM | 42.5 ug/L | 80 ug/L |
| HAA5 | 11–28 ug/L | 60 ug/L |
| Copper | 0.551 mg/L | 1.3 mg/L |
| PFOS | 0.93 ng/L | 4 ng/L |
| Fluoride | 0.81 mg/L | 4 mg/L |
| Lead | 2.7 ug/L | 15 ug/L |
| Combined Radium | 0.9 pCi/L | 5 pCi/L |
| Perfluorohexanesulfonic acid | 0.56 ng/L | 10 ng/L |
| Gross Alpha | 0.8 pCi/L | 15 pCi/L |
| Uranium | 1.5 ug/L | 30 ug/L |
| Nitrate Nitrite | 0.44 mg/L | 10 mg/L |
| Barium | 0.021 mg/L | 2 mg/L |
| Atrazine | 0.031 ug/L | 3 ug/L |
| Sodium | 8 mg/L | — |
| Perfluorobutanesulfonic acid | 0.34 ng/L | 450000 ng/L |
| Perfluorohexanoic acid | 1.3 ng/L | 150000 ng/L |
What this report doesn't tell you
16 of the 27 contaminants a community water system normally reports do not appear anywhere in Colorado Springs, CO's data. Absent is not the same as absent-from-the-water — it means nobody published a number.
+Full detail: PFAS testing, water source, historical monitoring, and the federal violation record
Where your water comes from · EPA SDWIS
Colorado Springs, CO buys its drinking water from COLORADO SPRINGS UTILITIES.
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Also buys water from COLORADO SPRINGS UTILITIES.
Compliance history
Federal Safe Drinking Water Act violation & enforcement records (EPA SDWIS). A violation is a regulatory determination by the state or EPA — separate from the measured levels above.
- Monitoring & reporting1 violation on record · most recent Jan 20261 open
Source: EPA SDWIS / ECHO. View the full federal record on EPA ECHO ↗