Whole House Water Filtration in Ridgway, CO

Before water ever reaches the plant, it settles in three small pre-sedimentation ponds that knock down turbidity and sediment from the Happy Hollow Ditch, the Ridgway Ditch and Lake Otonowanda. From there it flows by gravity into the treatment building, where the town's capital assessment describes chlorine dioxide pretreatment for color, taste and odor, followed by a 500 gallon per minute vacuum microfiltration system installed around 2008. The town replaced the membrane modules in 2017. Surface water supplies are exposed to weather. In August 2024 a storm damaged the Beaver Creek diversion, and for a time no water was moving into the Ridgway Ditch, so the town leaned on the Happy Hollow source. Events like that are handled at the plant, but they're a good reminder that creek water is never exactly the same two months in a row.

Plenty of homes around Ridgway sit outside the town water system on private wells. Those wells aren't covered by any town report, and nobody tests them unless the owner does. Wells in the region can carry hardness, iron, manganese and other naturally occurring minerals, and the only way to know about yours is to test it. We start with what we can measure on site and tell you when a certified lab panel is worth the extra step. If you're on town water, the main things people want fixed are chlorine taste and the occasional change in clarity when the source shifts. A whole-house carbon and sediment system takes care of both.