Hydrohistorian
Town of Ordway
Serves Ordway.
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 5R | Well | Groundwater |
| WELL NO 6 | Well | Groundwater |
| WELL NO 2 | Well | Groundwater |
| WELL NO 3 | Well | Groundwater |
| WELL NO 1A | Well | Groundwater |
| WELL NO 1B | Well | Groundwater |
| WELL NO 4 | Well | Groundwater |
| PURCHASED WATER FROM CO0113200 FAW WF | Consecutive connection (purchased) | Groundwater · from CROWLEY COUNTY WS |
| ORDWAY METER NO 1 | Consecutive connection (purchased) | Groundwater · from CROWLEY COUNTY WS |
| ORDWAY METER NO 2 | Consecutive connection (purchased) | Groundwater · from CROWLEY COUNTY WS |
| WELL NO 1R | Well | Groundwater |
| PURCHSD CROWLEY 113200 GW | Consecutive connection (purchased) | Groundwater · from CROWLEY COUNTY WS |
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
Buys water from CROWLEY COUNTY WS.
Sells water to 2 systems: 96 PIPELINE CO INC, CD WATER.
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 ↗
No open violation and no health-based violation on EPA's federal record for this system at the last monthly fetch. That is a record of reported compliance, not a test result: SDWIS carries violations, not routine sample values.
EPA's own summary: violations in 2 of the last 12 quarters. In violation for, in EPA's words: 2456=Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5); 2950=TTHM.
No health-based or open violation on the federal record for this system.
What the regulator did about it
22 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-07 | St Compliance achieved System collected (2/19/25) and reported (3/7/25) in accordance with the rule. SOX applied. LP 5/12/25 |
state |
| 2024-12-16 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2024-12-16 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2023-04-01 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2022-08-08 | St Compliance achieved SOX routine DBP performed 08/08/2022 FCL |
state |
| 2022-08-04 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2022-05-18 | St Compliance achieved SOX sampled 20 LCR correctly on 05/19/2022 FCL 07/08/2022 |
state |
| 2022-04-06 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2022-03-17 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2022-03-17 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2021-10-22 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2021-10-22 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2021-10-21 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2021-10-21 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2020-05-07 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2019-08-12 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2019-08-12 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2018-06-07 | St Compliance achieved violations stemed from not sampling source water related to a TC positive. system has since sampled source water at 003, 004, 005 8/16/2018 KLM |
state |
| 2016-02-10 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2016-02-10 | St Compliance achieved | state |
20 most recent of 22; 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 2026-10-09 · 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).
Common questions
Who provides drinking water in Ordway, Colorado?
The Town of Ordway is the public water system serving 1,300 people in Crowley County, from groundwater. Its EPA public water system id is CO0113700.
Where does the Town of Ordway get its water?
The Town of Ordway reports groundwater as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as WELL NO 5R, WELL NO 6, WELL NO 2, WELL NO 3.
Does the Town of Ordway have any drinking water violations?
EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for the Town of Ordway 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 Crowley 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 →