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Colorado Springs Utilities

Serves Colorado Springs and Green Mountain Falls, El Paso County, CO · 464,111 people served

Federal records show no health-based violations and 2 monitoring/reporting issues for Colorado Springs Utilities in the last ten years.

  • CO0121150
  • COLORADO SPRINGS
  • CO
  • 464,111 served

System profile

Source water Surface water
ZIP 80903
EPA system ID CO0121150

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Health-based violations, last 10 years
0
Resolved
0
Unresolved
0
Any acute record
No
Monitoring issues, last 10 years
2

Key facts

  • Colorado Springs Utilities draws water from 27 surface water intakes.
  • Most recent formal enforcement: compliance order (no penalty) by Colorado, May 1994.
  • Record on file since 1992, with 1 health-based violation before October 19, 2016.
  • Lead pipe inventory: 0 lead and 0 unknown out of 161,736 service lines.

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Health-based violations

Since October 2016

Violation data reflects EPA records through March 2026. For the most current status, visit the EPA ECHO database.

None since October 2016.

Monitoring and reporting issues

Since October 2016

Missed tests or reports, not contaminants found above a limit.

Issue Start date Status
Ethylbenzene
Monitoring and reporting
 Apr 1, 2018 Resolved
Xylenes, Total
Monitoring and reporting
 Apr 1, 2018 Resolved

Full record since 1992

EPA's records for Colorado Springs Utilities go back to 1992. Before October 19, 2016 they list 1 health-based violation (1 archived by EPA without a recorded fix) and 1 monitoring or reporting violation.

Violations that began in Health-based Monitoring and reporting
1990s 1 0
2000s 0 1
October 19, 2016 to 2019 0 2

Most recent health-based violation before October 19, 2016: Surface Water Treatment Rule, began January 1992, Archived.

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Contaminant Start date Status
Surface Water Treatment Rule
Treatment technique failure
 Jan 1, 1992 Archived

Enforcement actions

Colorado regulators took 1 formal enforcement action against Colorado Springs Utilities in 1994. The most recent was a compliance order (no penalty) in May 1994.

Date By Action Violations covered
May 3, 1994 Colorado Compliance order (no penalty) 1 violation (1 health-based): Surface Water Treatment Rule

Where the water comes from

Colorado Springs Utilities draws water from 27 surface water intakes. It also buys water from Fountain Valley Authority. 18 other community water systems buy water from Colorado Springs Utilities. 3 other public water systems have emergency connections to Colorado Springs Utilities.

Buys water from

Community systems that buy water from it

Annual water quality report

Colorado Springs Utilities must give its customers an annual water quality report (Consumer Confidence Report) by July 1, with the levels its tests found in the previous year.

Systems serving 10,000 or more people must mail or deliver the report to every customer, and from 2027 they must send it twice a year.

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Testing your own water

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