Hydrohistorian
Fort Garland Water & Sanitation District
Serves Fort Garland.
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
| Facility | Kind | Water |
|---|---|---|
| WELL NO 1 OFFICE WELL | Well | Groundwater |
| WELL NO 2 SOUTH 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 ↗
4 violations 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. In violation for, in EPA's words: 0999=Chlorine; 2456=Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5); 2950=TTHM; 5000=Lead and Copper Rule; 5200=LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS; 7000=Consumer Confidence Rule; 8000=Revised Total Coliform Rule. Currently: 5000=Lead and Copper Rule; 5200=LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS; 7000=Consumer Confidence Rule.
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.
Rule: Consumer Confidence Report -- the annual report to customers.
EPA violation code 4H, contaminant 5200 — not in the code table this build carries.
Rule: Lead and Copper Rule -- corrosion of household plumbing.
Every violation record, as filed (4 of 4)
| Compliance period | What | About | Kind | Status | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-01 | CCR Complete Failure to Report | Consumer Confidence Rule | other | open | |
| 2025-07-02 | code 4H | monitoring and reporting | open | ||
| 2025-07-01 | CCR Complete Failure to Report | Consumer Confidence Rule | other | open | |
| 2024-10-01 | Follow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/R | Lead and Copper Rule | monitoring and reporting | open |
What the regulator did about it
68 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-21 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2026-07-21 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2025-08-01 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2025-08-01 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2025-07-15 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2025-07-15 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2024-11-04 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2024-11-04 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2024-09-10 | St Compliance achieved System monitored and reported (09/10/2024) the next required sample for 3Y2023-2025 with 3Q2024 restriction, in accordance with the rule, SOX eligible - znk 11/04/2024 |
state |
| 2024-08-22 | St Compliance achieved System sampled and reported (08/22/2024) Aug2024 TC and residual, one period without additional vios in accordance with the rule, SOX eligible - znk 11/06/2024 |
state |
| 2024-08-19 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2024-08-19 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2024-08-19 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2024-08-19 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2024-06-28 | St Compliance achieved System submitted 2024 CCR - znk 07/01/2024 |
state |
| 2023-10-20 | St Compliance achieved RTC w/ OCT2023 compliant sample TJ |
state |
| 2023-10-18 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2023-10-18 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2023-10-16 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2023-10-16 | St Public Notif requested | state |
20 most recent of 68; the rest are on the ECHO report.
Lead and copper
The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.0 mg/L (sampling period ending 2021-12-31) against an action level of 0.015 mg/L, below it. 5 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 Violation/Reminder Notice (2026-07-21)
- Enforcement action: St Public Notif requested (2026-07-21)
- New violation: CCR Complete Failure to Report — Consumer Confidence Rule (2026-07-01)
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Common questions
Who provides drinking water in Ft Garland, Colorado?
Fort Garland Water & Sanitation District is the public water system serving 477 people in Costilla County, from groundwater. Its EPA public water system id is CO0112500.
Where does Fort Garland Water & Sanitation District get its water?
Fort Garland Water & Sanitation District reports groundwater as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as WELL NO 1 OFFICE WELL, WELL NO 2 SOUTH WELL.
Does Fort Garland Water & Sanitation District have any drinking water violations?
EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for Fort Garland Water & Sanitation 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 Costilla 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 →