Water Quality

Federal regulations require public water systems to deliver water quality reports to consumers each year.

Fort Collins Utilities is pleased to provide you with our report (PDF 1.8MB), which details where our water comes from, what our water contains, and other related information. We are committed to providing customers with reliable drinking water of superior quality. Our water surpasses all federal and state standards for public drinking water.

Contact Lois Rellergert at (970) 221-6700 for information about this report or Kevin Gertig at (970) 221-6637 for information about water quality issues. You can also e-mail your questions.

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Drinking Water Chemical Summary

The Environmental Protection Agency regulates many chemicals that may occur in drinking water. Fort Collins Utilities' Water Quality Laboratory analyzes these chemicals (PDF 587KB) in drinking water.

What About Bottled Water

In addition, Fort Collins Utilities compiled this comparison (PDF 45KB) of our drinking water with bottled water.

Monitoring and Protecting Our Source Waters

Fort Collins Utilities drinking water comes from the Cache la Poudre River and Colorado-Big Thompson (CBT) watersheds. These watersheds consist of the large areas of land that drain snowmelt and rainfall waters to the Poudre River and to the Big Thompson River, Horsetooth Reservoir and other components of the CBT Project, and eventually down to our treatment plant intakes. Watershed protection involves minimizing the negative impacts to the quality of these waters from activities on both land and water.

We collaborate with other entities to monitor and protect both watersheds upstream of our intakes. We have been a member of the Big Thompson Watershed Forum for several years and partner with other organizations on a regional project to monitor and analyze water quality in the CBT watershed. We are developing a water quality monitoring program for the upper Cache la Poudre Watershed with other drinking water providers that use this water.