Hydrohistorian
Town of Pritchett
Serves Pritchett.
Its service area also reaches Cimarron River Basin (14.0%).
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
| Facility | Kind | Water |
|---|---|---|
| NORTH WELL | Well | Groundwater |
| TOWER WELL | Well | Groundwater |
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 2026-10-06 · 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 2026-10-07 · verify at EPA ECHO ↗
Nothing open today, but 14 health-based violations appear on the federal record historically. The history is below.
EPA's own summary: violations in 6 of the last 12 quarters. In violation for, in EPA's words: 4010=Combined Radium (-226 and -228). Currently: 4010=Combined Radium (-226 and -228).
What happened
All 14 violation records on file, grouped into the 1 distinct thing EPA's codes describe. Dates are the compliance period the violation is filed against.
Rule: Radionuclides -- radium, uranium and gross alpha.
Every violation record, as filed (12 of 14)
| Compliance period | What | About | Kind | Status | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-01 – 2026-06-30 | MCL, Average | Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | health-based | known, archived | 6.0 PCI/L (limit 5.0) |
| 2026-01-01 – 2026-03-31 | MCL, Average | Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | health-based | known, archived | 6.0 PCI/L (limit 5.0) |
| 2025-10-01 – 2025-12-31 | MCL, Average | Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | health-based | known, archived | 6.0 PCI/L (limit 5.0) |
| 2025-07-01 – 2025-09-30 | MCL, Average | Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | health-based | known, archived | 6.0 PCI/L (limit 5.0) |
| 2025-04-01 – 2025-06-30 | MCL, Average | Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | health-based | known, archived | 6.0 PCI/L (limit 5.0) |
| 2024-01-01 – 2024-03-31 | MCL, Average | Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | health-based | returned to compliance (2024-07-18) | 6.0 PCI/L (limit 5.0) |
| 2023-10-01 – 2023-12-31 | MCL, Average | Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | health-based | returned to compliance (2024-07-18) | 6.0 PCI/L (limit 5.0) |
| 2022-07-01 – 2022-09-30 | MCL, Average | Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | health-based | returned to compliance (2023-02-07) | 6.0 PCI/L (limit 5.0) |
| 2022-04-01 – 2022-06-30 | MCL, Average | Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | health-based | returned to compliance (2023-02-07) | 6.0 PCI/L (limit 5.0) |
| 2021-10-01 – 2021-12-31 | MCL, Average | Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | health-based | returned to compliance (2023-02-07) | 5.69 PCI/L (limit 5.0) |
| 2021-07-01 – 2021-09-30 | MCL, Average | Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | health-based | returned to compliance (2023-02-07) | 6.0 PCI/L (limit 5.0) |
| 2020-10-01 – 2020-12-31 | MCL, Average | Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | health-based | returned to compliance (2021-07-13) | 5.63 PCI/L (limit 5.0) |
The remaining 2 are on the ECHO report.
What the regulator did about it
50 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.
| Date | Action | By |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | St Public Notif received | state |
| 2026-05-15 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2026-05-15 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2026-04-11 | St Public Notif received | state |
| 2026-03-12 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2026-03-12 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2026-01-20 | St Public Notif received | state |
| 2025-12-05 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2025-12-05 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2025-10-10 | St Public Notif received | state |
| 2025-09-10 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2025-09-10 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2025-05-25 | St Public Notif received PN/COD for 2Q2025 4010 MCL vio received 05/25/25 indicating timely distribution on 05/24/25 (lfra 06/08/25); |
state |
| 2025-04-30 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2025-04-30 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2024-07-18 | St Compliance achieved 4010 MCL vios from 4Q2023 and 1Q2024 RTC'd with 2 consecutive quarters with LRAA <MCL, SOXing with 3Q2024 reporting date of 07/18/24 (lfra 08/01/24); |
state |
| 2024-03-05 | St Public Notif received | state |
| 2024-02-21 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2024-02-21 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2023-12-09 | St Public Notif received | state |
20 most recent of 50; the rest are on the ECHO report.
Lead and copper
The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.001 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 2026-10-09 · 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).
What changed recently
Differences EPA's monthly federal record showed against the month before. A date in brackets is EPA's own; otherwise it is when this site first saw the change.
- Enforcement action: St Public Notif received (2026-06-02)
- Enforcement action: St Violation/Reminder Notice (2026-05-15)
- Enforcement action: St Public Notif requested (2026-05-15)
- New violation: MCL, Average — Combined Radium (-226 and -228) (2026-04-01)
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Common questions
Who provides drinking water in Pritchett, Colorado?
The Town of Pritchett is the public water system serving 125 people in Baca County, from groundwater. Its EPA public water system id is CO0105300.
Where does the Town of Pritchett get its water?
The Town of Pritchett reports groundwater as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as NORTH WELL, TOWER WELL.
Does the Town of Pritchett have any drinking water violations?
EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for the Town of Pritchett at the last monthly fetch. Older and non-health-based entries, if any, are listed on this page.
Places this system serves
Census places its EPA service-area boundary substantially covers. Each page lists every system serving that place.
Every provider in Baca County.
The record
EPA SDWIS federal reporting as of 2026-10-06; the compliance record above is EPA's own, fetched monthly, and the ECHO report carries the rest. Report a problem →