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Capulin Water District

Capulin Water District is the public water system serving 250 people in Conejos County, from groundwater. EPA modelled this service area rather than tracing it from a utility map, so treat the edge as approximate.
Community system · EPA id CO0111200 · filed with EPA as “CAPULIN WD”

Serves Capulin.

People served
250
Service connections
80
Primary source
Groundwater
Owner
Local government
Counties served
Conejos
Water district

Modelled boundary. EPA estimated this service area (Random Forest) rather than tracing a utility-supplied map; treat the edge as approximate. About 1 km².

Where the water comes from

FacilityKindWater
WELL NO 1WellGroundwater
TRACK WELLWellGroundwater
SCHOOL WELLWellGroundwater

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

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 violation open now, none health-based. These are monitoring, reporting or notice requirements — a sample not taken, or a result not filed on time. They are real obligations, but they are not a finding about the water itself.

EPA's own summary: violations in 12 of the last 12 quarters, significant non-compliance in 1. In violation for, in EPA's words: 0999=Chlorine; 2039=Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate; 2456=Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5); 2950=TTHM; 4006=Combined Uranium; 4010=Combined Radium (-226 and -228); 5200=LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS; 8000=Revised Total Coliform Rule. Currently: 5200=LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS.

What happened

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

Violation code 4H monitoring and reporting 1 open
A required report was not filed on time. 1 record, 2025-07-02.
EPA violation code 4H, contaminant 5200 — not in the code table this build carries.
Treatment Technique No Certif. Operator — DBP Stage 1 health-based
A required treatment step was not carried out or not proved. 1 record, 2023-11-01.
Rule: Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule.
Every violation record, as filed (2 of 2)
Compliance periodWhatAboutKindStatusMeasured
2025-07-02 code 4H monitoring and reporting open
2023-11-01 Treatment Technique No Certif. Operator DBP Stage 1 health-based returned to compliance (2024-01-23)

What the regulator did about it

66 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
2026-01-26 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2026-01-26 St Public Notif requested state
2026-01-26 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2026-01-26 St Public Notif requested state
2025-12-22 St Compliance achieved state
2025-10-31 St Compliance achieved
FTM routine TC/residual in Sept RTC through Oct samples collected 10/31/25 and reported on 11/03/25 (lfra 11/13/25);
state
2025-10-22 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2025-10-22 St Public Notif requested state
2025-10-22 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2025-10-22 St Public Notif requested state
2025-07-25 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2025-07-25 St Public Notif requested state
2025-03-28 St Compliance achieved
FTM RT TC/residual in FEB2025 RTC through MAR2025 sample collected 03/28/25 reported 03/31/25 (lfra 04/25/25);
state
2025-03-20 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2025-03-20 St Public Notif requested state
2025-03-20 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2025-03-20 St Public Notif requested state
2025-01-23 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2025-01-23 St Public Notif requested state
2024-10-30 St Compliance achieved
FTM TC/residual for SEPT2024 RTC through OCT2024 sample timely collected 10/30/24 and reported 11/04/24 (lfra 01/24/25);
state

20 most recent of 66; the rest are on the ECHO report.

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. 8 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 Administrative Contact, Colorado?

Capulin Water District is the public water system serving 250 people in Conejos County, from groundwater. Its EPA public water system id is CO0111200.

Where does Capulin Water District get its water?

Capulin Water District reports groundwater as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as WELL NO 1, TRACK WELL, SCHOOL WELL.

Does Capulin Water District have any drinking water violations?

EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for Capulin Water District 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 Conejos 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 →