From the Conejos County Citizen (Stan Moyer):
It hasn’t been established how much this solution will cost the community, varying from very little to as much as $250,000. Manassa has lost a waiver from a legal requirement for a sanitation method for water drawn from two deep wells supplying the town. Test samples drawn in the past three years had revealed bacteria in four instances, and e-coli, or fecal matter in two samples taken in 2008. Summarizing the Department of Public Health position, Safe Drinking Water Program Unit Manager Rick Koplitz declared, “We feel the present situation of no disinfectant system is too risky.”
More water treatment coverage here.