Hydrohistorian
Kiowa Water and Wastewater Authority
Serves Kiowa.
Modelled boundary. EPA estimated this service area (Random Forest) rather than tracing a utility-supplied map; treat the edge as approximate. About 2 km².
Where the water comes from
| Facility | Kind | Water |
|---|---|---|
| LOWER WEST WELL REDRILL | 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.
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 ↗
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 1 of the last 12 quarters. In violation for, in EPA's words: 0999=Chlorine; 8000=Revised Total Coliform Rule.
No health-based or open violation on the federal record for this system.
What the regulator did about it
32 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-12-03 | St Compliance achieved sample result received for next period |
state |
| 2024-11-18 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2024-11-18 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2024-11-18 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2024-11-18 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2023-01-12 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2023-01-12 | St Public Notif received | state |
| 2023-01-11 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2023-01-11 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2022-08-11 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2021-11-05 | St Compliance achieved sampled in 2021 |
state |
| 2021-10-19 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2021-10-19 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2021-01-11 | St Compliance achieved PN performed and received. LAC 1/12/2021 |
state |
| 2021-01-11 | St Public Notif received | state |
| 2021-01-02 | St Compliance achieved CCR and COD received. LAC 1/5/2021 |
state |
| 2021-01-02 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2020-12-30 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2020-10-09 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2020-10-09 | St Public Notif requested | state |
20 most recent of 32; the rest are on the ECHO report.
Lead and copper
The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.003 mg/L (sampling period ending 2023-12-31) against an action level of 0.015 mg/L, below it. 7 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 Kiowa, Colorado?
Kiowa Water and Wastewater Authority is the public water system serving 910 people in Elbert County, from groundwater. Its EPA public water system id is CO0120015.
Where does Kiowa Water and Wastewater Authority get its water?
Kiowa Water and Wastewater Authority reports groundwater as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as LOWER WEST WELL REDRILL.
Does Kiowa Water and Wastewater Authority have any drinking water violations?
EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for Kiowa Water and Wastewater Authority 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 Elbert 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 →