Community Water System · PWSID CO0123710

Silt Town of

Serves 3,536 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentSilt, Colorado
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On record since 2006: 25 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 19 missed or late tests · 5 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-07-01.

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
19Missed or late test
5Notice or report

More violations on record than 84% 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

20052006 · Notice or report: 12007 · Notice or report: 12008 · Missed or late test: 12010 · Notice or report: 120102014 · Missed or late test: 22014 · Missed or late test: 220152017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Treatment lapse: 12020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 420202021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Notice or report: 22023 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
4% treatment lapse · 176% missed or late test · 1920% notice or report · 5

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

3 ppb
2.7 ppb
2 ppb
2 ppb
2 ppb
1 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  2. 2023-06-22Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2021-05-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2021-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2020-11-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  6. 2020-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  7. 2020-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2020-04-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  9. 2020-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  10. 2019-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  11. 2019-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  12. 2018-11-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  13. 2018-11-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  14. 2018-06-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  15. 2018-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  16. 2018-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  17. 2017-07-02Surface water treatment (LT2)Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  18. 2017-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  19. 2017-06-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  20. 2014-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  21. 2014-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  22. 2010-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  23. 2008-04-01Dbp Stage 2Monitoring, Routine (IDSE)Back in compliance
  24. 2007-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  25. 2006-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served3,536
Service connections1,256
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CitySilt
EPA ZIP on file81652

Areas served

  • Garfield County

Reading this record

Silt Town of is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 3,536 people in Silt, 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.