"Water Safety Concerns Plague Colorado Mobile Home Park Residents"

Many residents of mobile home parks in Colorado, including Elephant Rock Mobile Home Park, are afraid to drink the tap water due to high levels of radium, a cancerous radioactive metal, found in the private groundwater wells that provide water to these communities. State legislators have received numerous complaints about smelly, discolored water that tastes bad and could be hazardous to residents' health. Mobile home park residents, many of whom have low incomes, fear eviction if they file water contamination complaints. The state recently passed a law requiring testing of water at mobile home parks and mandating remediation of any contaminated water found.