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Colorado Springs Utilities
Serves Colorado Springs, Green Mountain Falls, Cascade-Chipita Park.
Boundary traced. About 557 km².
Where the water comes from
| Facility | Kind | Water |
|---|---|---|
| INTAKE MONUMENT CREEK PIKEVIEW RESERVOIR | Intake | Surface water |
| INTAKE PUEBLO RESERVOIR DAM C | Intake | Surface water |
| INTAKE NORTH CATAMOUNT RESERVOIR DAM | Intake | Surface water |
| INTAKE SOUTH CATAMOUNT RESERVOIR DAM | Intake | Surface water |
| INTAKE NORTH AND SOUTH CASCADE CREEK | Intake | Surface water |
| INTAKE FRENCH CREEK | Intake | Surface water |
| INTAKE WEST MONUMENT CREEK | Intake | Surface water |
| INTAKE RESERVOIR BIG TOOTH DAM | Intake | Surface water |
| INTAKE LION CREEK | Intake | Surface water |
| INTAKE SHEEP CREEK | Intake | Surface water |
| INTAKE CABIN CREEK | Intake | Surface water |
| INTAKE MANITOU 1 | Intake | Surface water |
| INTAKE GOLD CAMP RESERVOIR DAM | Intake | Surface water |
| INTAKE SOUTH SUBURBAN DAM CREEK | Intake | Surface water |
| INTAKE RAMPART RESERVOIR | Intake | Surface water |
| INTAKE RUXTON CREEK | Intake | Surface water |
| INTAKE LAKE MORAINE DAM CREST | Intake | Surface water |
| INTAKE CRYSTAL RESERVOIR DAM | Intake | Surface water |
| INTAKE ROSEMONT RESERVOIR | Intake | Surface water |
| INTAKE N AND S CHEYENNE CREEK | Intake | Surface water |
| INTAKE BLUE RIVER SYSTEM | Intake | Surface water |
| INTAKE PIKEVIEW RESERVOIR | Intake | Surface water |
| PURCHASED FROM FOUNTAIN VALLEY 121300 | Consecutive connection (purchased) | Surface water · from FOUNTAIN VALLEY AUTHORITY |
| INTAKE HOMESTAKE AND FRY ARKANSAS | Intake | Surface water |
| INTAKE N AND S SLOPE RSVR FOUNTAIN C | Intake | Surface water |
| INTAKE NORTHFIELD RSVR | Intake | Surface water |
| INTAKE RAMPART RSVR W MONUMENT CRK | Intake | Surface water |
| INTAKE PUEBLO RESERVOIR FOR SDS WTP | Intake | Surface water |
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 FOUNTAIN VALLEY AUTHORITY.
Sells water to 20 systems: CHEROKEE MD, CANTERBURY PARK, CANYON RIDGE, DONALA WSD, CRESTLINE MANOR, EL MORRO MOBILE ESTATES, EMERALD ACRES MOBILE HOME PARK, FOUNTAIN VALLEY AUTHORITY, HOLIDAY VILLAGE MOBILE HOME COMMUNITY, LAMPLIGHTER RHP, SHADOW MOUNTAIN MOBILE HOME PARK, SHANGRILA MHP, SLEEPY VALLEY COMMUNITY MHP, SUNSET HILLS MOBILE PARK, SECURITY WATER DISTRICT, STRATMOOR HILLS WSD, TRIVIEW MD, US AIR FORCE ACADEMY, CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN SPACE FORCE STATION, US DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY FORT CARSON.
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
4 structures on DWR's record 4 match an EPA intake by name. A match says who DWR lists, not who owns the water: a ditch company can own the headgate while the system owns shares, and a consultant can be the contact. The dossier holds the decree.
| Structure | Type | Source | District | Matched on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLUE RIVER PIPELINE 1004676 | 7 | FOUNTAIN CREEK | Fountain Creek | intake name: INTAKE BLUE RIVER SYSTEM |
| FRENCH CREEK DIVERSION 1000574 | 7 | FRENCH CREEK | Fountain Creek | intake name: INTAKE FRENCH CREEK |
| RUXTON CREEK PIPELINE 1000581 | 7 | RUXTON CREEK | Fountain Creek | intake name: INTAKE RUXTON CREEK |
| RUXTON CREEK PIPELINE 1000885 | 7 | RUXTON CREEK | Fountain Creek | intake name: INTAKE RUXTON CREEK |
Compliance record
Source Register of another agency · fetched 2026-09-09 · verify at EPA ECHO ↗
No open violation and no health-based violation on EPA's federal record for this system at the last monthly fetch. That is a record of reported compliance, not a test result: SDWIS carries violations, not routine sample values.
EPA's own summary: violations in 0 of the last 12 quarters.
No health-based or open violation on the federal record for this system.
What the regulator did about it
5 enforcement actions on this system's federal record. In Colorado the state is the primacy agency, so most actions are the state's; EPA acts directly on tribal systems and when it steps in.
| Date | Action | By |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-08-01 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2018-07-23 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2018-07-23 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2018-07-23 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2018-07-23 | St Public Notif requested | state |
Lead and copper
The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.0057 mg/L (sampling period ending 2025-12-31) against an action level of 0.015 mg/L, below it. 10 results on file.
The action level is not a health limit: it is the level at which the rule requires a system to act (corrosion control, public education, and in some cases replacing lead service lines). Lead mostly enters water from household plumbing, so a system-wide percentile does not tell you what comes out of one tap.
Violation, enforcement and lead/copper records are EPA SDWIS federal reporting, fetched monthly; the summary is EPA ECHO. Code names come from EPA's own REF_CODE_VALUE table. SDWIS carries violations, not routine sample results — nitrate, disinfection by-product and PFAS values are not in it, and a clean record here means nothing was reported as a violation, not that nothing was ever detected. For what was measured, ask the system for its Consumer Confidence Report.
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 ↗
25 samples, 720 results, 2024-10-01 to 2025-07-21. No PFAS was detected at the reporting limits; lithium was measured up to 17.0 µg/L (no federal limit).
| Contaminant | Results | Detected | Highest, µg/L | Reporting limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HFPO-DA | 24 | 0 | < 0.005 | 0.005 |
| PFHxS | 24 | 0 | < 0.003 | 0.003 |
| PFNA | 24 | 0 | < 0.004 | 0.004 |
| PFOA | 24 | 0 | < 0.004 | 0.004 |
| PFOS | 24 | 0 | < 0.004 | 0.004 |
| lithium | 24 | 11 | 17.0 | 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 ↗.
Common questions
Who provides drinking water in Colorado Springs, Colorado?
Colorado Springs Utilities is the public water system serving 464,111 people in El Paso County, from surface water. Its EPA public water system id is CO0121150.
Where does Colorado Springs Utilities get its water?
Colorado Springs Utilities reports surface water as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as INTAKE MONUMENT CREEK PIKEVIEW RESERVOIR, INTAKE PUEBLO RESERVOIR DAM C, INTAKE NORTH CATAMOUNT RESERVOIR DAM, INTAKE SOUTH CATAMOUNT RESERVOIR DAM.
Does Colorado Springs Utilities have any drinking water violations?
EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for Colorado Springs Utilities at the last monthly fetch. Older and non-health-based entries, if any, are listed on this page.
Places this system serves
Census places its EPA service-area boundary substantially covers. Each page lists every system serving that place.
Every provider in El Paso County.
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 →