Hydrohistorian
Fruitland Domestic Water Company
Modelled boundary. EPA estimated this service area (Random Forest) rather than tracing a utility-supplied map; treat the edge as approximate. About 0 km².
Where the water comes from
| Facility | Kind | Water |
|---|---|---|
| INF GAL CRYSTAL CREEK | Intake | Surface water |
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 ↗
2 health-based violations open now. A health-based violation means a measured level went over a federal limit, or a required treatment step was not carried out — not a missed form. What that means for anyone drinking the water depends on the contaminant and the dose; read EPA's own report and the system's Consumer Confidence Report rather than anything inferred here.
EPA's own summary: violations in 12 of the last 12 quarters, significant non-compliance in 1. In violation for, in EPA's words: 0200=Surface Water Treatment Rule; 0300=Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule; 0400=Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule; 0700=Groundwater Rule; 0999=Chlorine; 2456=Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5); 2950=TTHM; 3014=E. COLI; 5000=Lead and Copper Rule; 7500=Public Notice; 8000=Revised Total Coliform Rule. Currently: 0400=Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule; 0700=Groundwater Rule; 5000=Lead and Copper Rule; 7500=Public Notice.
What happened
All 14 violation records on file, grouped into the 8 distinct things EPA's codes describe. Dates are the compliance period the violation is filed against.
Rule: Lead and Copper Rule -- corrosion of household plumbing.
Rule: Groundwater Rule -- protecting wells from faecal contamination.
Rule: Lead and Copper Rule -- corrosion of household plumbing.
Rule: Public Notice Rule -- telling customers about a problem.
Rule: Public Notice Rule -- telling customers about a problem.
Rule: Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule.
Rule: Lead and Copper Rule -- corrosion of household plumbing.
EPA violation code 2E, contaminant 5200 — not in the code table this build carries.
Every violation record, as filed (12 of 14)
| Compliance period | What | About | Kind | Status | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-01 | Lead Consumer Notice | Lead and Copper Rule | monitoring and reporting | open | |
| 2026-03-13 | PN Violation for NPDWR Violation | Public Notice | other | open | |
| 2026-03-01 | Public Education | Lead and Copper Rule | health-based | open | |
| 2026-02-21 | PN Violation for NPDWR Violation | Public Notice | other | open | |
| 2026-02-01 | Treatment Technique No Certif. Operator | DBP Stage 1 | health-based | returned to compliance (2026-02-27) | |
| 2025-12-05 | PN Violation for NPDWR Violation | Public Notice | other | open | |
| 2025-09-05 | PN Violation for NPDWR Violation | Public Notice | other | open | |
| 2025-07-01 | OCCT/SOWT Study/Recommendation | Lead and Copper Rule | health-based | returned to compliance (2025-12-16) | |
| 2025-03-01 | Public Education | Lead and Copper Rule | health-based | returned to compliance (2025-04-02) | |
| 2024-10-17 | code 2E | health-based | returned to compliance (2024-10-30) | ||
| 2024-02-24 | Failure To Address Deficiency | Groundwater Rule | health-based | open | |
| 2020-02-01 | Treatment Technique No Certif. Operator | DBP Stage 1 | health-based | returned to compliance (2020-05-01) |
The remaining 2 are on the ECHO report.
What the regulator did about it
182 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2026-04-20 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2026-03-30 | St AO (w/o penalty) issued DW.03.26.115288 issued on 3/30/2026. ejc |
state |
| 2026-03-23 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2026-03-23 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2026-03-23 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2026-03-23 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2026-03-12 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2026-02-27 | St Compliance achieved in checking ORC portal, ORC certification updated |
state |
| 2026-02-10 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2026-02-10 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2026-01-10 | St Compliance achieved per conversation's with data, we are manually processing systems Dec 25 MOR data this one time. System has recieve coaching and updated MOR submitted for records on 2/3/26 LCY |
state |
| 2026-01-06 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2026-01-06 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2026-01-04 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2026-01-04 | St Public Notif received | state |
| 2025-12-23 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2025-12-23 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2025-12-16 | St Compliance achieved WQP's sampled 12/16/2025 |
state |
| 2025-12-08 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
20 most recent of 182; the rest are on the ECHO report.
Lead and copper
The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.017 mg/L (sampling period ending 2025-12-31) against an action level of 0.015 mg/L, above it. 18 results on file, 3 lead results over the action level all time.
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 Hotchkiss, Colorado?
Fruitland Domestic Water Company is the public water system serving 335 people in Montrose County, from surface water. Its EPA public water system id is CO0115288.
Where does Fruitland Domestic Water Company get its water?
Fruitland Domestic Water Company reports surface water as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as INF GAL CRYSTAL CREEK.
Does Fruitland Domestic Water Company have any drinking water violations?
EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for Fruitland Domestic Water Company at the last monthly fetch. Older and non-health-based entries, if any, are listed on this page.
Every provider in Montrose 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 →