Rio Grande County, Colorado

EPA Safe Drinking Water Act

  • Public Drinking Water Systems

    49

  • Community Water Systems

    8

  • Systems with Violations

    7

  • Systems with Health Based Violations

    0

  • Systems Listed as Serious Violators

    0

  • Unresolved SDWA Violations

    11

  • Oldest Unresolved Violation

    11/15/2016

  • Population Served

    13,501

EPA National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

  • CWA Percent Non-Compliant

    7.53%

  • CWA Non-Compliant Systems

    7

  • CWA Total Violations

    17

The American Community Survey

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

    52

  • PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES

    1.12%

  • TOTAL POPULATION

    11,442

  • MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    $57,591

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

    2.2%

  • MALE

    5,913

  • FEMALE

    5,529

  • MEDIAN AGE

    41.3

  • MULTIRACIAL

    6,356

  • WHITE

    5,908

  • AFRICAN AMERICAN

    48

  • LATINO

    5,086

  • ASIAN

    17

  • AMERICAN INDIAN

    81

  • NATIVE PACIFIC ISLANDER

    15

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=08105 Other .gov state water resources: https://coepht.colorado.gov/public-drinking-water-datahttps://waterdata.usgs.gov/co/nwis/rt