Graphic Design
| Location: | Colorado |
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| Posted: | Aug 10, 2026 |
| Due: | Aug 28, 2026 |
| Agency: | Denver Water |
| Type of Government: | State & Local |
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Purchasing-Current
Contract or Solicitation Number:
506627
Solicitation Description:
Denver Water is seeking qualified graphic design services to support the development of print and digital communications that align with Denver Water's brand standards and effectively communicate the organization's mission, strategic priorities and public outreach objectives.
The selected Proposer (Contractor) will provide graphic design services on an as-needed basis, including working from existing templates, creating new designs, redesigning existing materials and providing ongoing production support. Work may include employee communications, customer communications, community outreach materials and Board communications.
Printing and translation services are not included in this scope of work. However, the Contractor will coordinate with Denver Water staff and external production vendors, including printers, as necessary to ensure final deliverables meet production specifications.
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Post Date:
August 10, 2026
Due Date:
August 28, 2026
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2026
INFORME DE CALIDAD DE AGUA
WHAT IS THIS REPORT?
The Environmental Protection Agency
requires public water suppliers that
serve the same people year-round
(community water systems) to provide
consumer confidence reports to their
customers. These reports are also
known as annual water quality reports.
This report summarizes information
regarding water sources used, any
detected contaminants, compliance and
educational information.
Where does your
water come from?
Denver’s drinking water
comes from rivers, lakes,
streams, reservoirs and
springs fed by high-quality mountain
snowmelt. Denver Water’s supply is
100% surface water that covers about
4,000 square miles of watersheds on
both sides of the Continental Divide.
Mountain water sources
Denver Water’s water sources
include the upper South Platte
River, the upper Blue River,
Bear Creek, South Boulder Creek, Ralston
Creek, tributaries to the Fraser River, and
the upper Williams Fork River. Denver
Water stores its water in five mountain
reservoirs: Antero, Eleven Mile Canyon,
Cheesman, Dillon and Gross. From
these reservoirs, the water is sent to the
metro area through a complex system of
streams, canals and pipes to be treated.
After treatment, drinking water is fed
by both gravity and pumps to a system
of underground, clean-water reservoirs
before continuing to your home or
business. More than 3,000 miles of water
mains — enough to stretch from Los
Angeles to New York — carry water to
Denver Water customers.
Source water assessment
The Colorado Department of Public
Health and Environment has completed a
source water assessment of the potential
for contaminants reaching
any of Denver Water’s three
terminal reservoirs at Strontia
Springs, Marston and Ralston,
the last stop for water before
it is treated. The potential sourPcheotsoocrfedit: Denver Water
contamination that may exist are:
• EPA areas of concern.
• permitted wastewater.
• discharge sites.
• above-ground, underground and
leaking storage tank sites.
• solid waste sites.
• existing or abandoned mine sites.
• other facilities.
Continued on the next page.
In this report:
What we test for
Denver Water has met all drinking water standards for
regulated water contaminants. Test results are detailed
on pages 8 to 13.
Monitoring requirements not met
In 2025, Denver Water failed to meet one monitoring
requirement. This did not pose a safety risk and does
not require any action from you. For details, see page 4.
Public board meetings
The Denver Board of Water Commissioners is
responsible for setting water rates and monitoring
the cost and maintenance of the water system.
Public meetings are generally held twice a month.
For a schedule and location of board meetings, visit
denverwater.org/BoardMeetings.
Obtain a paper copy of this report
Paper copies of this report, in English or Spanish,
can be requested through Denver Water Customer
Care at 303-893-2444, Monday through Friday,
from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. You can also email
CustomerCare@denverwater.org.
Información importante acerca de la calidad del agua.
Para recibir la versión en español del Informe de
Calidad de Agua de 2026 de Denver Water, llame al
departamento de servicio al cliente al 303-893-2444
o visite denverwater.org/2026CalidadDeAgua.
Image credit: Denver Water.
On the cover: In 2025, Denver Water scientists collected more than
58,000 water samples and conducted 128,000 tests to ensure customers
always have clean, safe, high-quality drinking water. We’re proud to
report that Denver Water has met or exceeded all drinking water
standards, detailed in the following report. Photo credit: Denver Water.
• commercial, industrial and transportation activities.
• residential, urban recreational grasses.
• quarries, strip mines and gravel pits.
• agriculture.
• forests.
• septic systems.
• oil and gas wells.
• roads.
The Source Water Assessment Report provides a screening-
level evaluation of potential contamination that could occur.
It does not mean that the contamination has or will occur. We
can use this information to evaluate the need to improve our
current water treatment capabilities and prepare for future
contamination threats. This can help us ensure that high-
quality drinking water is delivered to your home or business.
For general information, or to obtain a copy of the report,
please visit wqcdcompliance.com/ccr. The report is located
under “Guidance: Source Water Assessment Reports.”
Search the table using 116001, Denver Water Board, or call
Denver Water Customer Care at 303-893-2444.
DENVER WATER’S
SYSTEM
Devoted to water quality
Denver Water proudly serves high-quality water to 1.5 million
people in the city of Denver and many surrounding suburbs.
Since 1918, we have expertly planned, developed and operated
a complex system that provides clean, safe, great-tasting water.
Denver Water is a public agency funded by water rates, new tap
fees and the sale of hydropower, not taxes. We are Colorado’s
oldest and largest water utility — Denver Water has a total water
service area of approximately 300 square miles.
Denver Water serves 25% of the state’s population with less than
2% of all the water used in the state. Our customers are our top
priority. They rely on us to deliver a clean, reliable water supply
every day, without fail. In turn, we depend on our customers
to use our precious supply with the utmost efficiency. This
partnership requires that we continually earn our customers' trust
by listening to them and acting in their best interest, especially
regarding water quality. In 2025, we collected more than 58,000
water samples and conducted about 128,000 tests. Denver Water
is required by state and federal law to monitor for — and provide
this report on — regulated contaminants in drinking water.
Denver Water also goes above and beyond these
requirements to monitor for additional compounds in
drinking water. This information is available on our website
at denverwater.org/TreatedWater.
SOURCES OF
DRINKING WATER
Cheesman Reservoir. Photo credit: Denver Water.
Sources of drinking water include rivers,
lakes, streams, ponds, reservoirs, springs and
wells. As water travels over the surface of
the land or through the ground, it dissolves
naturally occurring minerals and, in some
cases, radioactive material. It can also pick up
substances resulting from human activity and
the presence of animals. Contaminants may
include the following:
Microbial contaminants
Viruses, bacteria and other microbes that
may come from sewage treatment plants,
septic systems, agricultural livestock
operations and wildlife.
Inorganic contaminants
Salts and metals, which can naturally occur or
result from urban stormwater runoff, industrial
or domestic wastewater discharges, oil and
gas production, mining or farming.
Pesticides and herbicides
Chemical substances resulting from a variety
of sources, such as agricultural and urban
stormwater runoff, and residential uses.
Organic chemical contaminants
Substances such as synthetic and volatile
organic chemicals, which are byproducts of
industrial processes and petroleum production,
and may come from gas stations, urban
stormwater runoff and septic systems.
Radioactive contaminants
Substances that can be naturally occurring or
be the result of oil and gas production and
mining activities.
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WATER AT A GLANCE
All drinking water, including bottled water,
may reasonably be expected to contain at
least small amounts of some contaminants.
The presence of contaminants does not
necessarily indicate that the water poses
a health risk. In order to ensure that
tap water is safe to drink, the Colorado
Department of Public Health and
Environment’s regulations set limits on
the amount of certain contaminants in
water provided by public water systems.
The Food and Drug Administration sets
limits for contaminants in bottled water
to provide the same protection for
public health.
More information about contaminants and
potential health effects can be obtained
by calling the Environmental Protection
Agency Safe Drinking Water Hotline at
800-426-4791 or by visiting epa.gov/
ground-water-and-drinking-water.
Some people may be more vulnerable to
contaminants in drinking water than the
general population. Immunocompromised
people, such as people with cancer
undergoing chemotherapy, people who
have undergone organ transplants, people
with HIV/AIDS or other immune system
disorders, some elderly and infants, can be
particularly at risk of infections.
Those at risk should seek advice about
drinking water from their health care
providers. Guidelines from the EPA and
the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention on appropriate ways to lessen
the risk of infection by cryptosporidium
and other microbial contaminants are
available from the Safe Drinking Water
Hotline, 800-426-4791.
LEAD REDUCTION PROGRAM
Denver Water is committed to delivering
safe water to our customers. Lead can
get into water as it moves through
customer-owned water service lines and
household plumbing that contain lead.
Service lines bring water into a home
or building from Denver Water’s main
delivery pipe in the street. In Denver
Water’s experience, homes built prior to
1951 are more likely to have lead service
lines. Homes built before 1987 may have
lead solder connecting copper pipes
in their plumbing. Faucets and fixtures
made before 2014 do not meet today’s
“lead-free” requirements. Lead exposure
can cause serious health problems for all
age groups, especially pregnant people
and young children.
To address this issue, Denver Water has
launched the Lead Reduction Program,
which was approved in December 2019
by the Environmental Protection Agency
and Colorado Department of Public
Health and Environment.
The Lead Reduction Program
has five main components:
• Managing our system’s water
chemistry, including an increased
pH level to reduce the risk of lead
getting into drinking water from lead
service lines or household plumbing.
• Maintaining (and updating) a
publicly accessible inventory of all
customer-owned lead service lines
in Denver Water’s service area.
This interactive map is available at
denverwater.org/Lead.
• Providing a free water pitcher and
filters that are certified to remove lead
to all customers suspected of having
a lead service line until their line is
replaced, and for six months after.
• Replacing the entire inventory of
lead service lines within our service
area with copper lines at no direct
charge to the customer. When initially
launched, all lead service lines were
slated to be removed by 2035.
Progress on service line replacements
can be viewed on the program
dashboard at denverwater.org/Lead.
• Ongoing communications, outreach
and education to reach and engage
with the diverse communities we serve.
How the program came
to be
Since 1992, as part of the EPA’s Lead
and Copper Rule, Denver Water has
monitored water quality in homes that
have service lines or plumbing that
contain lead.
Only once, in 2012, did test results from
those homes indicate additional action
was needed to protect public health, and
Denver Water remains in compliance today.
However, Denver Water is still required to
implement the best plan to reduce the risk
of lead in tap water in homes with lead-
containing plumbing or service lines. That
plan is the Lead Reduction Program, which
is now underway.
Learn more about this effort and the
program at denverwater.org/Lead.
If you are concerned about lead,
you can request to have your water
tested. Denver Water customers
can request a free lead test kit at
denverwater.org/Leadtest.
Information on lead in drinking water,
testing and steps to minimize exposure
is available from the Safe Drinking
Water Hotline at 800-426-4791, at
epa.gov/safewater/lead and at
denverwater.org/Lead.
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HOW TO MINIMIZE YOUR EXPOSURE TO LEAD
You share the responsibility of protecting yourself and your family from lead in your home’s plumbing.
You can take the following actions to reduce your household’s risk of exposure.
Flush
If water has not been used
in the property for a few
hours, such as first thing
in the morning or when coming
home from work, run cold water
from the kitchen or any bathroom
faucet for five minutes. You can also
run the dishwasher, take a shower
or do a load of laundry to help
flush water in your home’s internal
plumbing before drinking, cooking
or preparing infant formula.
Replace old fixtures
Replace faucets and
indoor plumbing
with “lead-free”
components. Faucets and fixtures installed
prior to 2014 do not meet today’s
requirements for “lead-free” fixtures.
Clean aerators
A faucet aerator is a small screen added
to the end of a faucet to mix air with
water to reduce the flow of water
coming from the faucet. Remove and
clean the aerators on your faucets, as
they may have trapped particles
from your old lead service line.
Maintain filters
Follow the manufacturer’s
maintenance schedule
for the filtration system
you have, including water
pitchers, faucet-mounted filters,
under-sink filter or refrigerator filters.
The results of your water quality test
may help to determine if you still wish
to continue using a filter. Boiling the
water does not remove lead.
You can find instructional videos on flushing and filter use at denverwater.org/Lead.
IS THERE A PRESENCE OF
CRYPTOSPORIDIUM AND GIARDIA?
Denver Water has tested for
Cryptosporidium (crypto) and giardia
in both raw and treated water since the
1980s. Since that time, Denver Water
has never detected a viable indication of
either in drinking water.
Crypto and giardia are microscopic
organisms that, when ingested, can
cause diarrhea, cramps, fever and other
gastro-intestinal symptoms. Crypto
and giardia are usually spread through
means other than drinking water.
While most people readily recover from
the symptoms, crypto and giardia can
cause more serious illness in people
with compromised immune systems.
The organisms are in many of Colorado’s
rivers and streams and are a result of
animal waste in the watershed.
At the treatment plants, Denver Water
removes crypto and giardia through
effective filtration, and giardia is also
killed by disinfection.
Denver Water has tested for cryptosporidium and giardia since the 1980s and has never detected
a viable indication of either in drinking water. Photo credit: Denver Water.
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