Otero County, Colorado

EPA Safe Drinking Water Act

  • Public Drinking Water Systems

    23

  • Community Water Systems

    23

  • Systems with Violations

    11

  • Systems with Health Based Violations

    0

  • Systems Listed as Serious Violators

    0

  • Unresolved SDWA Violations

    34

  • Oldest Unresolved Violation

    11/16/2022

  • Population Served

    20,209

EPA National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

  • CWA Percent Non-Compliant

    1.69%

  • CWA Non-Compliant Systems

    2

  • CWA Total Violations

    15

The American Community Survey

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

    32

  • PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES

    0.421%

  • TOTAL POPULATION

    18,580

  • MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    $47,500

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

    14.1%

  • MALE

    9,409

  • FEMALE

    9,171

  • MEDIAN AGE

    40.5

  • MULTIRACIAL

    10,613

  • WHITE

    9,500

  • AFRICAN AMERICAN

    229

  • LATINO

    7,967

  • ASIAN

    152

  • AMERICAN INDIAN

    75

  • NATIVE PACIFIC ISLANDER

    5

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=08089 Other .gov state water resources: https://coepht.colorado.gov/public-drinking-water-datahttps://waterdata.usgs.gov/co/nwis/rt