Hydrohistorian
Round Mountain Water & Sanitation District
Serves Westcliffe.
Modelled boundary. EPA estimated this service area (Random Forest) rather than tracing a utility-supplied map; treat the edge as approximate. About 3 km².
Where the water comes from
| Facility | Kind | Water |
|---|---|---|
| GALLERY WELL | Well | Groundwater |
| WESTCLIFF WELL NO 3 | Well | Groundwater |
| SMITH WELL REPLACEMENT | 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: VALLEY VIEW PARK MOBILE HOME COMMUNITY.
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 ↗
3 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: 7500=Public Notice. Currently: 7500=Public Notice.
What happened
All 3 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: Public Notice Rule -- telling customers about a problem.
Every violation record, as filed (3 of 3)
| Compliance period | What | About | Kind | Status | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-05 | PN Violation without NPDWR Violation | Public Notice | other | open | |
| 2023-06-05 | PN Violation without NPDWR Violation | Public Notice | other | open | |
| 2019-01-12 | PN Violation without NPDWR Violation | Public Notice | other | open |
What the regulator did about it
21 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-04 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2025-08-04 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2025-08-04 | St Compliance achieved System submitted 2025 CCR and COD 7.16.25 RNK 8.4.25 |
state |
| 2025-01-28 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2025-01-15 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2025-01-15 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2023-11-14 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2023-07-26 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2023-07-17 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2023-07-17 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2023-06-15 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2023-03-07 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2023-01-06 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2021-09-09 | St Public Notif received | state |
| 2020-01-31 | St Compliance achieved did LCN and PN for 2019 on 1/31/2020 |
state |
| 2020-01-24 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2020-01-24 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2019-07-16 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2016-06-08 | St Compliance achieved Took all required samples w/ residual following month (March 2016). hpo 6/8/2016 |
state |
| 2016-04-07 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
20 most recent of 21; 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. 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 2026-09-09 · 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 Westcliffe, Colorado?
Round Mountain Water & Sanitation District is the public water system serving 1,950 people in Custer County, from groundwater. Its EPA public water system id is CO0114500.
Where does Round Mountain Water & Sanitation District get its water?
Round Mountain Water & Sanitation District reports groundwater as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as GALLERY WELL, WESTCLIFF WELL NO 3, SMITH WELL REPLACEMENT.
Does Round Mountain Water & Sanitation District have any drinking water violations?
EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for Round Mountain 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 Custer 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 →