Hydrohistorian
Town of Poncha Springs
Serves Poncha Springs.
Modelled boundary. EPA estimated this service area (Random Forest) rather than tracing a utility-supplied map; treat the edge as approximate. About 2 km².
Where the water comes from
| Facility | Kind | Water |
|---|---|---|
| WELL NO 2 | Well | Groundwater |
| WELL NO 3 | Well | Groundwater |
| WELL NO 4 | Well | Groundwater |
| WELL 6 | Well | Groundwater |
| WELL 7 | 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.
Wholesale connections
Sells water to 1 system: PELINO INC.
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 ↗
Nothing open today, but 1 health-based violation appears on the federal record historically. The history is below.
EPA's own summary: violations in 3 of the last 12 quarters. In violation for, in EPA's words: 5000=Lead and Copper Rule.
What happened
All 1 violation record on file, grouped into the 1 distinct thing EPA's codes describe. Dates are the compliance period the violation is filed against.
Rule: Lead and Copper Rule -- corrosion of household plumbing.
Every violation record, as filed (1 of 1)
| Compliance period | What | About | Kind | Status | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-01 – 2024-06-30 | WQP Entry Point/Tap Treatment Technique Non-Compliance | Lead and Copper Rule | health-based | returned to compliance (2025-01-07) |
What the regulator did about it
10 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-07 | St Compliance achieved Clean LCR data processed on 1/7/2025, meets RTC ESS 9/10/2025 |
state |
| 2024-11-01 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2024-11-01 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2024-11-01 | St Compliance achieved Consumer notice copy and COD submitted 10/08/2024 |
state |
| 2024-08-23 | St Public Notif received | state |
| 2024-07-16 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2024-07-16 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2020-03-05 | St Compliance achieved System collected next required routine sample in Q1 2020 lmf 4/30/2020 |
state |
| 2020-01-28 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2020-01-28 | 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. Copper 1.49 mg/L against 1.3 mg/L, above it. 18 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 Poncha Springs, Colorado?
The Town of Poncha Springs is the public water system serving 2,118 people in Chaffee County, from groundwater. Its EPA public water system id is CO0108650.
Where does the Town of Poncha Springs get its water?
The Town of Poncha Springs reports groundwater as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as WELL NO 2, WELL NO 3, WELL NO 4, WELL 6.
Does the Town of Poncha Springs have any drinking water violations?
EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for the Town of Poncha Springs 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 Chaffee 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 →