Chaffee County, Colorado

EPA Safe Drinking Water Act

  • Public Drinking Water Systems

    72

  • Community Water Systems

    18

  • Systems with Violations

    6

  • Systems with Health Based Violations

    0

  • Systems Listed as Serious Violators

    2

  • Unresolved SDWA Violations

    25

  • Oldest Unresolved Violation

    05/15/2018

  • Population Served

    25,146

EPA National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

  • CWA Percent Non-Compliant

    1.84%

  • CWA Non-Compliant Systems

    4

  • CWA Total Violations

    26

The American Community Survey

  • HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    53

  • PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES

    0.585%

  • TOTAL POPULATION

    19,564

  • MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    $65,703

  • PERCENTAGE OF FAMILIES BELOW POVERTY LEVEL (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    3.1%

  • MALE

    10,215

  • FEMALE

    9,349

  • MEDIAN AGE

    47.8

  • MULTIRACIAL

    17,596

  • WHITE

    16,545

  • AFRICAN AMERICAN

    207

  • LATINO

    1,968

  • ASIAN

    226

  • AMERICAN INDIAN

    27

  • NATIVE PACIFIC ISLANDER

    74

To learn more about individual water systems and violations please visit the echo.epa.gov interactive map for this county here: https://echo.epa.gov/facilities/facility-search/results?p_st=CO&p_fips=08015 Other .gov state water resources: https://coepht.colorado.gov/public-drinking-water-datahttps://waterdata.usgs.gov/co/nwis/rt