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Eagle River Water & Sanitation District

Eagle River Water & Sanitation District is the public water system serving 51,515 people in Eagle County, from surface water. It also sells water wholesale to 2 systems. EPA modelled this service area rather than tracing it from a utility map, so treat the edge as approximate.
Community system · EPA id CO0119802 · filed with EPA as “EAGLE RIVER WSD”

Serves Avon, Edwards.

People served
51,515
Service connections
10,120
Primary source
Surface water
Owner
Local government
Counties served
Eagle
Water district

Modelled boundary. EPA estimated this service area (Random Forest) rather than tracing a utility-supplied map; treat the edge as approximate. About 44 km².

Where the water comes from

FacilityKindWater
WEST VAIL WELL NO 08RWellGroundwater
GORE CREEK FOR GORE PLANTIntakeSurface water
WEST VAIL WELL NO 07WellGroundwater
VAIL WELL R2WellGroundwater
VAIL WELL R1WellGroundwater
VAIL WELL R6WellGroundwater
VAIL WELL R4WellGroundwater
VAIL WELL R7WellGroundwater
EAGLE RIVER INTAKE FOR AVON PLANTIntakeSurface water
EAGLE RIVER INTAKE FOR EDWARDS PLANTIntakeSurface water
EDWARDS WELLWellGroundwater
BERRY CREEK WELL NO 1WellGroundwater
BERRY CREEK WELL NO 2WellGroundwater
BERRY CREEK WELL NO 3WellGroundwater
FENNO WELL NO 1WellGroundwater
FENNO WELL NO 2WellGroundwater
FENNO WELL NO 3WellGroundwater
FENNO WELL NO 4WellGroundwater
FENNO WELL NO 5WellGroundwater
FENNO WELL NO 6WellGroundwater
FENNO WELL NO 7WellGroundwater

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 2 systems: THE ASPENS MOBILE HOME VILLAGE, VAIL ASSOC MIDVAIL EAGLE.

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

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.

StructureTypeSourceDistrictMatched on
VAIL VILLAGE WEST WELL 1 3705071 2 GORE CREEK Eagle River Basin intake name: WEST VAIL WELL NO 07
VAIL VILLAGE WEST WELL 2 3705072 2 GORE CREEK Eagle River Basin intake name: WEST VAIL WELL NO 07
VAIL VILLAGE WEST WELL 3 3705073 2 GORE CREEK Eagle River Basin intake name: WEST VAIL WELL NO 07
VAIL VILLAGE WEST WELL 4 3705074 2 GORE CREEK Eagle River Basin intake name: WEST VAIL WELL NO 07
VAIL VILLAGE WEST WELL 5 3705075 2 GORE CREEK Eagle River Basin intake name: WEST VAIL WELL NO 07
VAIL VILLAGE WEST WELL 6 3705076 2 GORE CREEK Eagle River Basin intake name: WEST VAIL WELL NO 07
VAIL VILLAGE WEST WELL 7 3705136 2 GORE CREEK Eagle River Basin intake name: WEST VAIL WELL NO 07
VAIL VILLAGE WEST WELL 8 3705137 2 GORE CREEK Eagle River Basin intake name: WEST VAIL WELL NO 07

Compliance record

Source Register of another agency · fetched 2026-09-09 · 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 0 of the last 12 quarters.

No health-based or open violation on the federal record for this system.

No enforcement action against this system on the federal record.

Lead and copper

The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.002 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 2026-09-09 · verify at EPA UCMR occurrence data ↗

28 samples, 840 results, 2025-01-07 to 2025-10-08. No PFAS was detected at the reporting limits; lithium was measured up to 14.6 µg/L (no federal limit).

ContaminantResultsDetectedHighest, µg/LReporting limit
HFPO-DA 28 0 < 0.005 0.005
PFHxS 28 0 < 0.003 0.003
PFNA 28 0 < 0.004 0.004
PFOA 28 0 < 0.004 0.004
PFOS 28 0 < 0.004 0.004
lithium 28 6 14.6 9.0

Rows shown: every detected contaminant plus the regulated PFAS and lithium; the rest were below their reporting limits. These are UCMR monitoring samples, not compliance samples. EPA's April 2024 rule set 4.0 ng/L (0.004 µg/L) for PFOA and PFOS, the same as UCMR 5's reporting limit, so any detection of either is at or above it; the rule's compliance date and its other limits have been under revision since 2025 and are not applied here. State PFAS sampling is on CDPHE's pages ↗.

Common questions

Who provides drinking water in Vail, Colorado?

Eagle River Water & Sanitation District is the public water system serving 51,515 people in Eagle County, from surface water. Its EPA public water system id is CO0119802.

Where does Eagle River Water & Sanitation District get its water?

Eagle River Water & Sanitation District reports surface water as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as WEST VAIL WELL NO 08R, GORE CREEK FOR GORE PLANT, WEST VAIL WELL NO 07, VAIL WELL R2.

Does Eagle River Water & Sanitation District have any drinking water violations?

EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for Eagle River 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 Eagle 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 →