Tap water · CO
Colorado Springs Utilities
EPA system ID CO0121150 · serves about 464,111 people. Every US utility must publish an annual water quality report — here’s the official one (2025), and below it, our plain-English translation.
Read the official report →What Colorado Springs Utilities found in 2025
13 detected analytes from the utility’s own annual report, hand-normalized — 1 was near or over a limit (flagged below).
| Detected | Level | Limit | % of limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | 48 ppb | 60 ppb | 80% | Near limit |
| Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM) | 48 ppb | 80 ppb | 60% | Within limit |
| Lead (90th percentile) | 5.7 ppb | 15 ppb | 38% | Within limit |
| Fluoride | 0.48 ppm | 4 ppm | 12% | Within limit |
| Copper (90th percentile) | 0.12 ppm | 1.3 ppm | 9% | Within limit |
| Selenium | 1.5 ppb | 50 ppb | 3% | Within limit |
| Barium | 0.03 ppm | 2 ppm | 2% | Within limit |
| Nitrate | 0.14 ppm | 10 ppm | 1% | Within limit |
| 2, 4-D | 0.08 ppm | 70 ppm | 0% | Within limit |
| Xylenes | 0.44 ppb | 10,000 ppb | 0% | Within limit |
| Sodium | 12.6 ppm | — | — | No federal limit |
| Lithium — 2024 monitoring | 6.12 ppb | — | — | No federal limit |
| Turbidity (highest) | 0.51 NTU | — | — | No federal limit |
Levels and limits are as printed in the utility’s report (“limit” is the EPA MCL, action level, residual limit, or secondary guideline that applies to that row; “ND” = not detected). Utilities publish these reports annually — we re-check every covered utility each July, after the federal publication deadline. Detected doesn’t mean dangerous — most detections sit far below their limits. This is education, not medical advice.
Your tap, if it were a bottle
How Colorado Springs Utilities water stacks up against the bottled aisle
Same minerals, same units — the tap values below come from the utility’s report, placed next to the closest match in our bottled-water database.
| Mineral | Your tap | Closest bottled match |
|---|---|---|
| Sodium | 12.6 mg/L | Volvic at 11.6 mg/L |
Tap values are the headline levels from the utility’s annual report (often a highest or average figure); bottled values are label- or report-derived. A closest match is a numeric comparison, not an equivalence or an endorsement.
Zip codes covered
80903 · 80904 · 80905 · 80906 · 80907 · 80909 · 80910 · 80916 · 80917 · 80918 · 80919 · 80920 · 80922 · 80923 · 80924 · 80927 · 80938 · 80939
Boundary zips partially served by other systems are deliberately unlisted — check your exact zip.