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Otero County, CO drinking water systems

10 community water systems serve Otero County, CO, reporting 16,143 people served in all.

8 of them (80%) had at least one health-based violation in the last 10 years. 5 systems still have one unresolved.

9 rely mainly on groundwater and 1 on surface water, counting water bought from other systems.

Their lead service line inventories list 0 lead lines, 4 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 3,656 lines of unknown material.

13 more systems are placed in Otero County, CO by the county their records name because they have no service area map that lines up with their own records, so they are listed apart and not counted here.

Community water systems
10
People served, sum of each system's own figure
16,143
Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years
8
Systems with one unresolved
5
Lead service lines in inventories
0

Water systems serving Otero County

10 systems

People served is each system's own figure for its whole service area. Violation counts cover the last 10 years of EPA records.

System Serves People served Main source Health-based violations, 10 years Unresolved Lead lines
City of La Junta La Junta 8,320 Groundwater 0 0 0
City of Rocky Ford Rocky Ford 4,443 Groundwater 0 0 0
Town of Fowler Fowler 1,169 Groundwater under direct influence 4 0 0
Town of Swink Swink 660 Groundwater 1 0 0
Eureka WC Outside cities and towns 498 Groundwater 66 2 0
Town of Manzanola Manzanola and land outside it 497 Groundwater 46 2 0
Town of Cheraw Cheraw 254 Groundwater 36 6 0
Beehive Water Association Outside cities and towns 154 Groundwater 78 0 0
Riverside WC Outside cities and towns 90 Groundwater 43 1 0
North Holbrook WC Outside cities and towns 58 Groundwater 35 1 0

Systems placed by county record in Otero County

13 systems

EPA has no service area map for these systems. They are placed by the county their records name (the counties EPA lists them serving, or the county coded in their IDs where EPA lists none), and without a map they are not counted in the figures above.

System Serves People served Main source Health-based violations, 10 years Unresolved Lead lines
Bents Fort WC County on record 900 Purchased groundwater 0 2 0
South Swink Water Authority County on record 622 Groundwater 105 0 0
Newdale Grand Valley WC County on record 458 Groundwater 0 1 0
Hilltop WC County on record 285 Groundwater 0 0 0
Valley WC County on record 270 Groundwater 121 0 0
Vroman WC County on record 125 Groundwater 60 0 0
West Grand Valley WA County on record 100 Groundwater 31 0 0
Patterson Valley WC County on record 96 Groundwater 68 0 0
Homestead Improvement Association Inc County on record 87 Purchased groundwater 0 0 0
Fayette WC County on record 75 Groundwater 54 0 0
East End WA County on record 70 Groundwater 40 0 0
Holbrook Center Soft WA County on record 54 Groundwater 32 2 0
South Side WA County on record 44 Groundwater 12 1 0

Cities and towns in Otero County

6 places

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Counties come from the counties EPA lists each system serving, matched to 2024 Census counties; where EPA lists none, from the county coded in the system's ID, its service area map, or its mailing address. A county holding at least a fifth of a system's service area map is added when at least a fifth of that map lies in those counties. Towns are the ones EPA lists and the Census places such a map covers, always inside those counties. In New England, where EPA's town names a whole Town, it is not matched to the village of the same name. A system is not listed in a county holding less than a fifth of its map, or in a county or town its map reaches when the map lies mostly outside the counties EPA lists, so a page can leave out a system that serves part of the area. Methodology and limitations