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Navajo River Ranch Property Owners Association

Navajo River Ranch Property Owners Association is the public water system serving 40 people in Archuleta County, from groundwater under the influence of surface water. EPA modelled this service area rather than tracing it from a utility map, so treat the edge as approximate.
Community system · EPA id CO0104533 · filed with EPA as “NAVAJO RIVER RANCH POA”
People served
40
Service connections
57
Primary source
Groundwater under the influence of surface water
Owner
Private
Counties served
Archuleta
Water district

Modelled boundary. EPA estimated this service area (Random Forest) rather than tracing a utility-supplied map; treat the edge as approximate. About 0 km².

Where the water comes from

FacilityKindWater
CENTRAL SUPPLY NO1 WELLWellGroundwater under the influence of surface water
RUSSELL SPRING WELL NO.2WellGroundwater under the influence of surface water

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

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

1 structure on DWR's record 1 matches an EPA intake by name. A match says who DWR lists, not who owns the water: a ditch company can own the headgate while the system owns shares, and a consultant can be the contact. The dossier holds the decree.

StructureTypeSourceDistrictMatched on
RUSSELL SPRING WELL 7705016 2 NAVAJO RIVER Navajo River Basin intake name: RUSSELL SPRING WELL NO.2

Compliance record

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

Nothing open today, but 3 health-based violations appear on the federal record historically. The history is below.

EPA's own summary: violations in 1 of the last 12 quarters. In violation for, in EPA's words: 0300=Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule.

What happened

All 3 violation records on file, grouped into the 2 distinct things EPA's codes describe. Dates are the compliance period the violation is filed against.

Single Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR) — Ieswtr health-based
A required treatment step was not carried out or not proved. 2 records, 2023-03-01 to 2024-11-01.
Rule: Long Term 1 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule.
Treatment Technique No Certif. Operator — DBP Stage 1 health-based
A required treatment step was not carried out or not proved. 1 record, 2016-04-01.
Rule: Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule.
Every violation record, as filed (3 of 3)
Compliance periodWhatAboutKindStatusMeasured
2024-11-01 – 2024-11-30 Single Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR) Ieswtr health-based returned to compliance (2025-01-05)
2023-03-01 – 2023-03-31 Single Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR) Ieswtr health-based returned to compliance (2023-05-06)
2016-04-01 Treatment Technique No Certif. Operator DBP Stage 1 health-based returned to compliance (2016-09-02)

What the regulator did about it

42 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
2025-01-05 St Compliance achieved state
2024-12-24 St Public Notif received state
2024-12-11 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2024-12-11 St Public Notif requested state
2023-05-06 St Compliance achieved
submitted MOR for April 2023 within compliance. KLM
state
2023-03-23 St Public Notif received state
2023-03-17 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2023-03-17 St Public Notif requested state
2021-07-12 St Compliance achieved state
2021-04-06 St Compliance achieved
MOR submitted
state
2021-02-03 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2021-02-03 St Public Notif requested state
2020-07-29 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2020-07-29 St Public Notif requested state
2020-07-29 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2020-07-29 St Public Notif requested state
2019-10-02 St Compliance achieved state
2019-10-01 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2019-10-01 St Public Notif requested state
2019-10-01 St Violation/Reminder Notice state

20 most recent of 42; the rest are on the ECHO report.

Lead and copper

The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.0009 mg/L (sampling period ending 2025-12-31) against an action level of 0.015 mg/L, below it. 12 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 ↗

4 samples, 120 results, 2025-03-03 to 2025-12-02. No PFAS was detected at the reporting limits; lithium was measured up to 21.0 µg/L (no federal limit).

ContaminantResultsDetectedHighest, µg/LReporting limit
HFPO-DA 4 0 < 0.005 0.005
PFHxS 4 0 < 0.003 0.003
PFNA 4 0 < 0.004 0.004
PFOA 4 0 < 0.004 0.004
PFOS 4 0 < 0.004 0.004
lithium 4 3 21.0 9.0

Rows shown: every detected contaminant plus the regulated PFAS and lithium; the rest were below their reporting limits. These are UCMR monitoring samples, not compliance samples. EPA's April 2024 rule set 4.0 ng/L (0.004 µg/L) for PFOA and PFOS, the same as UCMR 5's reporting limit, so any detection of either is at or above it; the rule's compliance date and its other limits have been under revision since 2025 and are not applied here. State PFAS sampling is on CDPHE's pages ↗.

Common questions

Who provides drinking water in Pagosa Springs, Colorado?

Navajo River Ranch Property Owners Association is the public water system serving 40 people in Archuleta County, from groundwater under the influence of surface water. Its EPA public water system id is CO0104533.

Where does Navajo River Ranch Property Owners Association get its water?

Navajo River Ranch Property Owners Association reports groundwater under the influence of surface water as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as CENTRAL SUPPLY NO1 WELL, RUSSELL SPRING WELL NO.2.

Does Navajo River Ranch Property Owners Association have any drinking water violations?

EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for Navajo River Ranch Property Owners Association at the last monthly fetch. Older and non-health-based entries, if any, are listed on this page.

Every provider in Archuleta 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 →