Community Water System · PWSID CO0123676

Rifle City of

Serves 9,489 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentRifle, Colorado
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On record since 2015: 21 violations. 1 over the limit · 20 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2023-10-01.

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
20Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 82% 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

200520102015 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Missed or late test: 220152018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 220202022 · Missed or late test: 82022 · Missed or late test: 82022 · Missed or late test: 82022 · Missed or late test: 82022 · Missed or late test: 82022 · Missed or late test: 82022 · Missed or late test: 82022 · Missed or late test: 82023 · Over the limit: 12023 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Missed or late test: 62025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
5% over the limit · 195% missed or late test · 20

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

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Trihalomethanes (TTHM)2023-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0813 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.0×)
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 14 results on file · action level 15 ppb

4 ppb
2.9 ppb
2.8 ppb
2.3 ppb
2.2 ppb
2.1 ppb
1.9 ppb
1.7 ppb
1.6 ppb
1.4 ppb
1.1 ppb
1.1 ppb
1.1 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0813 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2023-03-01Chlorine dioxideMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  3. 2023-03-01ChloriteMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2023-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2023-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  6. 2023-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2023-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  8. 2022-12-01ChloriteMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  9. 2022-12-01Chlorine dioxideMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2022-09-01ChloriteMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2022-09-01Chlorine dioxideMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2022-06-01ChloriteMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  13. 2022-06-01Chlorine dioxideMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2022-03-01ChloriteMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  15. 2022-03-01Chlorine dioxideMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  16. 2019-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2019-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2018-11-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  19. 2018-11-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  20. 2015-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  21. 2015-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance

System details

Population served9,489
Service connections3,787
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityRifle
EPA ZIP on file81650

Areas served

  • Garfield County

Reading this record

Rifle City of is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 9,489 people in Rifle, 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.