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Friendly Village of the Rockies

Friendly Village of the Rockies is the public water system serving 1,046 people in Adams County, from purchased surface water. It buys water from City of Thornton.
Community system · EPA id CO0101283 · filed with EPA as “FRIENDLY VILLAGE OF THE ROCKIES”
People served
1,046
Service connections
524
Primary source
Purchased surface water
Owner
Private
Counties served
Adams
Water district

Boundary OSM from US EPA Office of Research and Development. About 0 km².

Where the water comes from

FacilityKindWater
PURCHASED FROM CO0101150 THORNTON CITYOFConsecutive connection (purchased)Surface water · from THORNTON CITY OF

These are EPA's facility records, not DWR structures. Which decreed rights sit behind an intake is the next phase; nothing here is inferred.

Wholesale connections

Buys water from THORNTON CITY OF.

DWR structures that name this system

Source Probable join · fetched 2026-09-09 · matched on DWR's recorded contact or an EPA intake name; verify on the dossier

No DWR structure on file records this system as its contact, and none of its EPA intakes matches a structure name in its districts. DWR records a contact on only a fraction of structures, and only for districts fetched from its live service, so this is absence of a record, not evidence of no rights.

Compliance record

Source Register of another agency · fetched 2026-09-09 · verify at EPA ECHO ↗

1 health-based violation open now. A health-based violation means a measured level went over a federal limit, or a required treatment step was not carried out — not a missed form. What that means for anyone drinking the water depends on the contaminant and the dose; read EPA's own report and the system's Consumer Confidence Report rather than anything inferred here.

EPA's own summary: violations in 6 of the last 12 quarters. In violation for, in EPA's words: 0700=Groundwater Rule; 7000=Consumer Confidence Rule; 7500=Public Notice. Currently: 0700=Groundwater Rule; 7000=Consumer Confidence Rule; 7500=Public Notice.

What happened

All 4 violation records on file, grouped into the 3 distinct things EPA's codes describe. Dates are the compliance period the violation is filed against.

Failure To Address Deficiency — Groundwater Rule health-based 1 open
A required treatment step was not carried out or not proved. 1 record, 2025-07-24.
Rule: Groundwater Rule -- protecting wells from faecal contamination.
PN Violation for NPDWR Violation — Public Notice other 2 open
A requirement other than a limit, a sample or a notice was not met. 2 records, 2025-12-07 to 2026-03-07.
Rule: Public Notice Rule -- telling customers about a problem.
CCR Complete Failure to Report — Consumer Confidence Rule other 1 open
A requirement other than a limit, a sample or a notice was not met. 1 record, 2025-07-01.
Rule: Consumer Confidence Report -- the annual report to customers.
Every violation record, as filed (4 of 4)
Compliance periodWhatAboutKindStatusMeasured
2026-03-07 PN Violation for NPDWR Violation Public Notice other open
2025-12-07 PN Violation for NPDWR Violation Public Notice other open
2025-07-24 Failure To Address Deficiency Groundwater Rule health-based open
2025-07-01 CCR Complete Failure to Report Consumer Confidence Rule other open

What the regulator did about it

13 enforcement actions on this system's federal record. In Colorado the state is the primacy agency, so most actions are the state's; EPA acts directly on tribal systems and when it steps in.

DateActionBy
2026-04-01 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2026-01-06 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2025-11-06 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2025-11-06 St Public Notif requested state
2025-07-15 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2025-07-15 St Public Notif requested state
2025-04-06 St Compliance achieved
SOXing; LCN received. MM 4/7/2025
state
2025-01-02 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2025-01-02 St Public Notif requested state
2024-06-29 St Public Notif received
PN performed with 2024 CCR. MM 7/1/2024
state
2023-02-27 St Compliance achieved state
2023-01-23 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2023-01-23 St Public Notif requested state

Lead and copper

The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.0 mg/L (sampling period ending 2025-12-31) against an action level of 0.015 mg/L, below it. 6 results on file.

The action level is not a health limit: it is the level at which the rule requires a system to act (corrosion control, public education, and in some cases replacing lead service lines). Lead mostly enters water from household plumbing, so a system-wide percentile does not tell you what comes out of one tap.

Violation, enforcement and lead/copper records are EPA SDWIS federal reporting, fetched monthly; the summary is EPA ECHO. Code names come from EPA's own REF_CODE_VALUE table. SDWIS carries violations, not routine sample results — nitrate, disinfection by-product and PFAS values are not in it, and a clean record here means nothing was reported as a violation, not that nothing was ever detected. For what was measured, ask the system for its Consumer Confidence Report.

PFAS and lithium: EPA's UCMR 5 monitoring, 2023–2025

Source Register of another agency · fetched 2026-09-09 · verify at EPA UCMR occurrence data ↗

EPA did not sample this system under UCMR 5 (the rule covered every system serving more than 3,300 people and a drawn sample of smaller ones).

Common questions

Who provides drinking water in Thornton, Colorado?

Friendly Village of the Rockies is the public water system serving 1,046 people in Adams County, from purchased surface water. Its EPA public water system id is CO0101283.

Where does Friendly Village of the Rockies get its water?

Friendly Village of the Rockies reports purchased surface water as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as PURCHASED FROM CO0101150 THORNTON CITYOF.

Does Friendly Village of the Rockies have any drinking water violations?

EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for Friendly Village of the Rockies at the last monthly fetch. Older and non-health-based entries, if any, are listed on this page.

Every provider in Adams County.

The record

EPA SDWIS federal reporting as of 2026-09-08; the compliance record above is EPA's own, fetched monthly, and the ECHO report carries the rest. Report a problem →