Community Water System · PWSID CO0143600

Paradox Pipeline Co

Serves 200 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateParadox, Colorado
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On record since 2007: 85 violations. 23 treatment lapses · 38 missed or late tests · 24 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-04-01.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

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

0Over the limit
23Treatment lapse
38Missed or late test
24Notice or report

More violations on record than 96% 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

20052007 · Missed or late test: 120102011 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Treatment lapse: 120152017 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Treatment lapse: 12018 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Treatment lapse: 62019 · Treatment lapse: 62019 · Treatment lapse: 62019 · Missed or late test: 112019 · Missed or late test: 112019 · Missed or late test: 112019 · Missed or late test: 112019 · Missed or late test: 112019 · Missed or late test: 112019 · Notice or report: 52019 · Notice or report: 52019 · Notice or report: 52020 · Treatment lapse: 12020 · Missed or late test: 62020 · Missed or late test: 62020 · Missed or late test: 62020 · Notice or report: 62020 · Notice or report: 62020 · Notice or report: 620202021 · Treatment lapse: 12021 · Missed or late test: 52021 · Missed or late test: 52021 · Missed or late test: 52021 · Notice or report: 42021 · Notice or report: 42022 · Treatment lapse: 122022 · Treatment lapse: 122022 · Treatment lapse: 122022 · Treatment lapse: 122022 · Treatment lapse: 122022 · Treatment lapse: 122022 · Missed or late test: 62022 · Missed or late test: 62022 · Missed or late test: 62022 · Notice or report: 22023 · Treatment lapse: 12023 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Notice or report: 32023 · Notice or report: 32024 · Notice or report: 22025 · Missed or late test: 42025 · Missed or late test: 42025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
27% treatment lapse · 2345% missed or late test · 3828% notice or report · 24

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

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 6 results on file · action level 15 ppb

1.1 ppb
0.9 ppb
0.9 ppb
0.7 ppb
0.6 ppb
0.3 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-03-07E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  4. 2025-01-02Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2025-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-07-02Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2024-01-02Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2023-10-02Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2023-07-02Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2023-04-02Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2023-01-06Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  12. 2023-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  13. 2022-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2022-09-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  15. 2022-09-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  16. 2022-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  17. 2022-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  18. 2022-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  19. 2022-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  20. 2022-06-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  21. 2022-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  22. 2022-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  23. 2022-04-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  24. 2022-03-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  25. 2022-03-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
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  1. 2022-02-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  2. 2022-02-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monthly Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  3. 2022-02-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  4. 2022-02-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  5. 2022-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  6. 2022-01-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monthly Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  7. 2022-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  8. 2021-12-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2021-12-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  10. 2021-12-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  11. 2021-12-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  12. 2021-11-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  13. 2021-09-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2021-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  15. 2021-06-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2021-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  17. 2021-02-10Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2020-12-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  19. 2020-09-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2020-08-10Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2020-08-02Surface water treatment (SWTR)Failure to Filter (SWTR)Back in compliance
  22. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  23. 2020-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  24. 2020-05-10Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  25. 2020-02-10Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  26. 2020-02-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  27. 2020-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  28. 2020-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  29. 2020-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  30. 2020-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  31. 2019-12-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  32. 2019-11-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  33. 2019-11-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  34. 2019-11-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  35. 2019-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  36. 2019-10-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  37. 2019-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  38. 2019-10-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  39. 2019-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  40. 2019-09-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  41. 2019-08-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  42. 2019-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  43. 2019-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  44. 2019-07-10Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance
  45. 2019-07-10Unknown contaminantRecord KeepingBack in compliance
  46. 2019-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  47. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  48. 2019-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  49. 2019-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  50. 2019-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  51. 2019-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  52. 2019-04-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  53. 2018-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  54. 2018-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  55. 2018-05-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  56. 2017-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  57. 2017-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  58. 2015-05-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  59. 2011-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  60. 2007-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served200
Service connections52
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityParadox
EPA ZIP on file81429

Areas served

  • Montrose County

Reading this record

Paradox Pipeline Co is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 200 people in Paradox, 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.