Fort Collins Utilities is committed to providing high-quality, reliable water. Our service area covers about 35 square miles. We serve more than 35,000 customers. We are one of several water providers in Fort Collins.
Fort Collins Utilities is committed to delivering high-quality drinking water. Our treated drinking water consistently surpasses state and federal standards for purity.
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Discover how Fort Collins Utilities manages and protects our community’s water. From conservation tips and efficiency rebates to long-term City planning, explore programs designed to help you save water, prepare for drought, and support a sustainable future.
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Fort Collins Utilities manages water supply and demand through careful research and analysis regarding streamflow, diversions, climate, customer demand and population estimates to ensure a clean, reliable water supply for customers now and into the future. Utilities supplies water to approximately 75% of residents and businesses within the Fort Collins city limits. The remaining customers are serviced by surrounding water districts, including East Larimer County Water District and Fort Collins-Loveland Water District.
Each year, Utilities typically:
We are committed to providing customers with reliable drinking water of superior quality. Our treated drinking water consistently surpasses state and federal standards for purity.
Our Water Treatment Facility, staffed 24 hours a day by state-certified operators, chemically and physically treats raw (untreated) water to make it safe to drink.
The facility has the ability to treat up to 87 million gallons of water a day. On average in 2020, it treated 23 million gallons a day and peak production was 49 million gallons in one day.
We maintain:
The quality of our infrastructure and ongoing maintenance and replacement programs are critical to our distribution system. Some of Fort Collins’ pipelines have been in operation for over 100 years and must be upgraded to continue providing safe and reliable water.
Fort Collins Utilities monitors water quality in three areas:
Since the late 1980s, Utilities has monitored the water quality of our drinking water sources before they reach the water treatment facility. Water quality monitoring is an important tool to proactively track changes and identify pollution sources. Collecting and accessing data helps the City of Fort Collins meet drinking water treatment goals.
Fort Collins Utilities provides wastewater reclamation services for Fort Collins through two facilities. Together, these facilities have a treatment capacity of 29 million gallons per day. Our advanced operations, leadership and values allow us to return treated water to our community that exceeds public and environmental health regulatory criteria.
The water reclamation facilities, staffed by state-certified operators, use an array of physical, biological and chemical processes to treat wastewater. The facilities discharge to the Cache la Poudre River and Fossil Creek Irrigation Ditch. The removed solids in the treatment process are digested to meet strict state and federal standards for organic and pathogen removal. Generated Class B biosolids are dewatered and applied as a beneficial soil amendment at Meadow Springs Ranch.
Businesses that operate industrial processes are subject to pretreatment regulations and may be required to obtain an industrial discharge permit.
Our Industrial Pretreatment Program controls the discharge of wastewater pollutants from industrial and commercial sources to:
Other commercial wastewater considerations include:
Contact the program administrators by emailing industrial_pretreatment@fortcollins.gov.
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