Town of Paonia☆

Where the water comes from

Facility	Kind	Water
SPRING NO 10 OLD ORIG	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
SPRING NO 11 OLD ORIG	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
SPRING NO 12 OLD ORIG	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
SPRING NO 13 REYNOLDS	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
SPRING NO 14 REYNOLDS	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
SPRING NO 15 REYNOLDS	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
SPRING NO 16 MERRT METER	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
SPRING NO 17 MERRT METER	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
SPRING NO 18 MERRT METER	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
SPRING NO 19 MERRT METER	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
SPRING NO 20 MERRT METER	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
SPRING NO 21 MERRT METER	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
SPRING NO 22 MERRT METER	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
SPRING NO 23 KAUER	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
SPRING NO 24 CORRAL 1	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
SPRING NO 25 CORRAL 2	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
SPRING NO 26 CLARK 1	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
SPRING NO 27 CLARK 2	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
SPRING NO 28 MAYS	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
SPRING NO 29 MAYS	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
GERMAN CREEK NO 3	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
SPRING NO 30 TODD	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
SPRING NO 31 TODD	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
SPRING NO 32 TODD	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
SPRING NO 33 GILWICK 1	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
SPRING NO 34 GILWICK 2	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
SPRING NO 35 TODD RES	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
SPRING NO 36 POLE PATCH	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
SPRING NO 37	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
SPRING NO 38	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
SPRING NO 39	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
SPRING NO 4 OLD ORIG	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
LAKE FORK SPRING	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
GERMAN CREEK NO 1 LOW	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
GERMAN CREEK NO 3 UP	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
SPRING NO 5 OLD ORIG	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
SPRING NO 6 OLD ORIG	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
SPRING NO 7 OLD ORIG	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
SPRING NO 8 OLD ORIG	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
SPRING NO 9 OLD ORIG	Well	Groundwater under the influence of 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.

Wholesale connections

Sells water to 7 systems: HAMMOND PIPELINE, HIDDEN VALLEY HOA WATER COMPANY, MINNESOTA PIPELINE, SOUTH LAMBORN MESA WATER COMPANY, STEWART MESA WC, WEST PAONIA DOMESTIC WATER COMPANY, WESTERN EXTENSION DOMESTIC WATER COMPANY.

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

8 structures on DWR's record 8 match an EPA intake by name. A match says who DWR lists, not who owns the water: a ditch company can own the headgate while the system owns shares, and a consultant can be the contact. The dossier holds the decree.

Compliance record

Source Register of another agency · fetched 2026-10-07 · verify at EPA ECHO ↗

EPA's own summary: violations in 3 of the last 12 quarters. In violation for, in EPA's words: 0200=Surface Water Treatment Rule; 0300=Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment 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.

Every violation record, as filed (4 of 4)

Compliance period	What	About	Kind	Status	Measured
2023-05-01 – 2023-05-31	Single Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)	Ieswtr	health-based	returned to compliance (2023-07-07)
2022-01-01 – 2022-01-31	Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)	SWTR	health-based	returned to compliance (2022-03-03)
2021-12-01 – 2021-12-31	Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)	SWTR	health-based	returned to compliance (2022-03-03)
2013-11-01	Failure to Filter (SWTR)	SWTR	health-based	returned to compliance (2016-03-11)

What the regulator did about it

194 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.

20 most recent of 194; the rest are on the ECHO report.

Lead and copper

The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.0012 mg/L (sampling period ending 2026-06-30) against an action level of 0.015 mg/L, below it. 21 results on file, 1 lead result 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 2026-10-09 · 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 Paonia, Colorado?

The Town of Paonia is the public water system serving 2,499 people in Delta County, from groundwater under the influence of surface water. Its EPA public water system id is CO0115601.

Where does the Town of Paonia get its water?

The Town of Paonia reports groundwater under the influence of surface water as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as SPRING NO 10 OLD ORIG, SPRING NO 11 OLD ORIG, SPRING NO 12 OLD ORIG, SPRING NO 13 REYNOLDS.

Does the Town of Paonia have any drinking water violations?

EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for the Town of Paonia at the last monthly fetch. Older and non-health-based entries, if any, are listed on this page.