Colorado Springs, Colorado
Colorado Springs Utilities 2026 Drinking Water Quality Report (2025 data, PWS CO0121150). Hardness is not printed on the pages we opened. Residual disinfectant is chlorine; December 2025 TT 100% of samples at least 0.2 ppm. No Measure S-style residential softener ban turned up.
- ChlorineTT 100% ≥0.2 ppm (December 2025)
- TTHMs40.9 ppb (range 25.4–62.4)
Best match for Colorado Springs
Whole-house carbon for chlorine
No district prohibition on a brine drain turned up in the current file.
That is chlorine. A whole-house carbon filter with an NSF/ANSI 42 chlorine claim is the usual match. A softener will not take chlorine out.
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Other options that still fit
Confirm hardness on the current CCR before buying
Open the current CCR for grains. This file does not invent a number from a ranking site. A salt softener needs a drain if it is legal at the address.
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Under-sink reverse osmosis
The under-sink RO we actually run is Cloud RO — NSF/ANSI 58, kitchen tap, not a whole-house tank. Check the exact listing if PFAS is why you are shopping. Shop Amazon first for under-sink RO, or buy Cloud direct. Waterdrop is a tankless option if you want that path. A certifier-listed pitcher is the cheap first step. Nobody is paying for a medical claim.
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Test the tap first
A homeowner kit is a start. It is not a state-certified lab. Use a certified lab when the decision is expensive.
On the report
- Water utility
- Colorado Springs Utilities
- Hardness
- Not printed on the 2026 Drinking Water Quality Report pages we opened. Unknown — no hardness bar invented. — Colorado Springs Utilities 2026 Drinking Water Quality Report (hardness not on the opened tables)
- Disinfectant
- Chlorine. MRDL 4 ppm. Treatment technique at least 95% of samples per month must be at least 0.2 ppm. December 2025 printed 100% and 0 samples below 0.2 ppm. No separate residual average was printed on that row. — Colorado Springs Utilities 2026 Drinking Water Quality Report
- Brine / salt to the sewer
- No district prohibition found in current research. Searched Colorado Springs Utilities and City of Colorado Springs sewer pages and codes for a residential self-regenerating softener or brine-drain ban like LACSD Measure S. None turned up. Ask the sewer agency on the bill before you cut a brine drain.
Also around here
Extra context besides the utility report and the chart above — geology, an unregulated table, or a published study. Not a second set of printed tap numbers.
- MicroplasticsWHO’s 2019 review examined studies that found microplastic particles in treated tap and bottled water in many places. That is a published-occurrence finding, not a number from this city’s water-quality report, and we do not invent a particles-per-liter count for the tap.Microplastics in drinking-water — World Health Organization
- PFASEPA’s Fifth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule required community systems this size to test 29 PFAS and lithium in 2023–2025. Open the UCMR 5 Data Finder for this PWS. This file does not invent a detection.Fifth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule — U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Colorado Springs drinking water is treated and delivered by Colorado Springs Utilities (PWS CO0121150). The 2026 Drinking Water Quality Report covers 2025 data. No City of Colorado Springs residential softener ban like LACSD Measure S turned up. Ask the sewer agency on the bill before you cut a brine drain. This is not a legal opinion.
The tables we opened do not print hardness. We do not invent a ppm or grains bar.
Residual disinfectant is chlorine. December 2025 printed 100% of samples at least 0.2 ppm. TTHMs 40.9 ppb (range 25.4–62.4); the same row also prints 48. Kitchen shopping stays the Cloud RO / Waterdrop path already used on other cities if a listing is why you are looking.
Sources
- 2026 Drinking Water Quality Report (2025 data) — Colorado Springs Utilities. Accessed 2026-09-09.
Updated September 9, 2026. A city file is chemistry we can cite plus the sewer rule. No invented detections.