Transient Non-Community · PWSID CO0324001

Cold Springs Cg

Serves 304 peopleGroundwaterOwner: FederalFort Collins, Colorado
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On record since 2011: 4 violations. 1 over the limit · 2 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2024-08-16.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

1Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
2Missed or late test
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 43% of active water systems in Colorado. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

200520102011 · Missed or late test: 12012 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Over the limit: 1201520202024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
25% over the limit · 150% missed or late test · 225% notice or report · 1

Across Colorado, 74% of violations are missed or late tests and 6% are water over a limit.

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-08-16Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance
  2. 2015-07-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  3. 2012-07-12E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  4. 2011-08-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served304
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerFederal
StatusActive
CityFort Collins
EPA ZIP on file80526

Areas served

  • Gilpin County

Reading this record

Cold Springs Cg is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 304 people in Fort Collins, Colorado. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.