Community Water System · PWSID WY5601233

Cottonwood Acres

Serves 95 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateTorrington, Wyoming
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On record since 2015: 15 violations. 13 over the limit · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-01.

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

13Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
0Missed or late test
2Notice or report

More violations on record than 85% of active water systems in Wyoming. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

200520102015 · Notice or report: 120152018 · Notice or report: 120202023 · Over the limit: 12024 · Over the limit: 82024 · Over the limit: 82024 · Over the limit: 82024 · Over the limit: 82024 · Over the limit: 82024 · Over the limit: 82024 · Over the limit: 82024 · Over the limit: 82025 · Over the limit: 42025 · Over the limit: 42025 · Over the limit: 42025 · Over the limit: 42025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
87% over the limit · 1313% notice or report · 2

Across Wyoming, 85% of violations are missed or late tests and 4% are water over a limit.

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Nitrate-NitriteCombined Uranium2025-07-01 · Nitrate-Nitrite: measured 12.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.2×)2025-07-01 · Combined Uranium: measured 37.00 UG/L vs limit 30.00 UG/L (1.2×)2025-04-01 · Combined Uranium: measured 39.50 UG/L vs limit 30.00 UG/L (1.3×)2025-04-01 · Nitrate-Nitrite: measured 12.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.2×)2024-10-01 · Combined Uranium: measured 38.00 UG/L vs limit 30.00 UG/L (1.3×)2024-10-01 · Nitrate-Nitrite: measured 11.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.1×)2024-07-01 · Combined Uranium: measured 37.00 UG/L vs limit 30.00 UG/L (1.2×)2024-07-01 · Nitrate-Nitrite: measured 11.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.1×)2024-04-01 · Nitrate-Nitrite: measured 11.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.1×)2024-01-01 · Nitrate-Nitrite: measured 12.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.2×)2023-10-01 · Nitrate-Nitrite: measured 11.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.1×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

5 ppb
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Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-01Nitrate-NitriteMCL, Averagemeasured 12.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-07-01Combined UraniumMCL, Averagemeasured 37.00 UG/L · limit 30.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-04-01Combined UraniumMCL, Averagemeasured 39.50 UG/L · limit 30.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2025-04-01Nitrate-NitriteMCL, Averagemeasured 12.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-10-01Combined UraniumMCL, Averagemeasured 38.00 UG/L · limit 30.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-10-01Nitrate-NitriteMCL, Averagemeasured 11.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2024-07-01Combined UraniumMCL, Averagemeasured 37.00 UG/L · limit 30.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2024-07-01Nitrate-NitriteMCL, Averagemeasured 11.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2024-04-01Combined UraniumMCL, Averagemeasured 35.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2024-04-01Nitrate-NitriteMCL, Averagemeasured 11.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2024-01-01Combined UraniumMCL, Averagemeasured 33.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2024-01-01Nitrate-NitriteMCL, Averagemeasured 12.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2023-10-01Nitrate-NitriteMCL, Averagemeasured 11.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2018-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  15. 2015-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served95
Service connections38
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityTorrington
EPA ZIP on file82240

Areas served

  • Torrington, Goshen County

Reading this record

Cottonwood Acres is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 95 people in Torrington, Wyoming. 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.