Community Water System · PWSID CO0121600

Park Forest

Serves 930 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentColorado Springs, Colorado

Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 2007: 70 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 65 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-10-01.

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

1Treatment lapse

65Missed or late test

4Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 94% 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

One square ≈ 4 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.

1% treatment lapse · 193% missed or late test · 656% notice or report · 4

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 15 results on file · action level 15 ppb

21 ppb

0 ppb

Open now (1)

2025-02-09Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

2025-10-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
2025-04-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
2025-02-09Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationOpen
2025-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
2025-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
2023-10-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
2022-10-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
2022-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
2022-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
2021-10-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
2021-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
2021-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
2021-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
2021-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
2020-10-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
2020-01-01ChlordaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Ethylene DibromideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-011, 2-Dibromo-3-ChloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01PentachlorophenolMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Benzo(a)pyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01HexachlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-012, 4, 5-TpMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-012, 4-DMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Heptachlor epoxideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance

Show the other 45 entries

2020-01-01HeptachlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01LassoMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01AtrazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01AldicarbMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01CarbofuranMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Aldicarb sulfoneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Aldicarb sulfoxideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01HexachlorocyclopentadieneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01DinosebMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01PicloramMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01SimazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01OxamylMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01EndothallMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01DiquatMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01DalaponMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01ToxapheneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01MethoxychlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Bhc-GammaMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01EndrinMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01SeleniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Thallium, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Beryllium, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Antimony, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01SodiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01NickelMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01MercuryMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01ChromiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01CadmiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01BariumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2019-12-01Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationBack in compliance
2019-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
2019-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
2019-01-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
2019-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
2018-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
2018-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
2016-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
2016-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
2008-04-01Dbp Stage 2Monitoring, Routine (IDSE)Back in compliance
2007-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
2007-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served	930
Service connections	291
Water source	Groundwater
System type	Community Water System
Owner	Local Government
Status	Active
City	Colorado Springs
EPA ZIP on file	80908

Areas served

El Paso County

Reading this record

Park Forest is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 930 people in Colorado Springs, 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.