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CHEROKEE MD

Community system · EPA id CO0121125
People served
29,610
Service connections
9,111
Primary source
Groundwater
Owner
Local government
Counties served
El Paso
Water district

Boundary traced from IRE. About 18 km².

Where the water comes from

FacilityKindWater
WELL NO 2WellGroundwater
WELL NO 17WellGroundwater
PURCHASED FROM CO0121150Consecutive connection (purchased)Surface water · from COLORADO SPRINGS UTILITIES
WELL NO 18 TIPTONWellGroundwater
WELL NO 20 GOSS WELLWellGroundwater
WELL NO 19 DUNCAN WELLWellGroundwater
WELL NO 9WellGroundwater
WELL NO 10WellGroundwater
WELL NO 11WellGroundwater
WELL AR-1WellGroundwater
WELL NO 12WellGroundwater
WELL NO 13WellGroundwater
WELL NO 15WellGroundwater
WELL NO 1WellGroundwater
WELL NO 16WellGroundwater
WELL NO 3WellGroundwater
WELL NO 4WellGroundwater
WELL NO 5WellGroundwater
WELL NO 6WellGroundwater
WELL NO 7WellGroundwater
WELL NO 8WellGroundwater
WELL DN-4WellGroundwater
WELL 21 SWEETWATER 5WellGroundwater

These are EPA's facility records, not DWR structures. Which decreed rights sit behind an intake is the next phase; nothing here is inferred.

Wholesale connections

Buys water from COLORADO SPRINGS UTILITIES.

Sells water to 3 systems: ELLICOTT UTILITIES COMPANY LLC, THE SPRINGS MHP, WOODMEN HILLS MD.

DWR structures that name this system

Source Probable join · fetched 2026-09-09 · matched on DWR's recorded contact or an EPA intake name; verify on the dossier

No DWR structure on file records this system as its contact, and none of its EPA intakes matches a structure name in its districts. DWR records a contact on only a fraction of structures, and only for districts fetched from its live service, so this is absence of a record, not evidence of no rights.

Compliance record

Source Register of another agency · fetched 2026-09-09 · verify at EPA ECHO ↗

EPA's summary: violations in 3 of the last 12 quarters; not a serious violator. Contaminants in violation in the last three years, in EPA's words: 2456=Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5); 2950=TTHM.

No health-based or open violation on the federal record for this system.

Lead and copper: the latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.002 mg/L (sampling period ending 2025-12-31) against an action level of 0.015 mg/L; 7 results on file.

SDWIS federal reporting carries violations and lead/copper percentiles only; nitrate, disinfection by-product and PFAS sample results are not in it. Codes are EPA's (violation, contaminant, rule); the ECHO report expands them.

PFAS and lithium: EPA's UCMR 5 monitoring, 2023–2025

Source Register of another agency · fetched 2026-09-09 · verify at EPA UCMR occurrence data ↗

8 samples, 180 results, 2024-04-23 to 2024-10-15. 4 of the 29 PFAS were detected at least once; lithium was measured up to 25.7 µg/L (no federal limit). PFOA measured up to 0.0061 µg/L, at or above EPA's 2024 limit of 0.004 µg/L.

ContaminantResultsDetectedHighest, µg/LReporting limit
HFPO-DA 6 0 < 0.005 0.005
PFBS 6 2 0.0076 0.003
PFHxA 6 2 0.0176 0.003
PFHxS 6 0 < 0.003 0.003
PFNA 6 0 < 0.004 0.004
PFOA 6 2 0.0061 (≥ 0.004 MCL) 0.004
PFOS 6 0 < 0.004 0.004
PFPeA 6 3 0.0198 0.003
lithium 6 6 25.7 9.0

Rows shown: every detected contaminant plus the regulated PFAS and lithium; the rest were below their reporting limits. These are UCMR monitoring samples, not compliance samples. EPA's April 2024 rule set 4.0 ng/L (0.004 µg/L) for PFOA and PFOS, the same as UCMR 5's reporting limit, so any detection of either is at or above it; the rule's compliance date and its other limits have been under revision since 2025 and are not applied here. State PFAS sampling is on CDPHE's pages ↗.

The record

EPA SDWIS federal reporting as of 2026-09-08; the compliance record above is EPA's own, fetched monthly, and the ECHO report carries the rest. Report a problem →