Hydrohistorian
Garden Valley
Boundary traced from IRE. About 1 km².
Where the water comes from
| Facility | Kind | Water |
|---|---|---|
| NO 8 WELL | Well | Groundwater |
| NEW WELL 75667F | Well | Groundwater |
| NEW WELL 75666FR | Well | Groundwater |
| NO 1 WELL | Well | Groundwater |
| NO 2 WELL | Well | Groundwater |
| NO 3 WELL | Well | Groundwater |
| NO 4 WELL | Well | Groundwater |
| NO 5 WELL | Well | Groundwater |
| NO 6 WELL | Well | Groundwater |
| NO 7 WELL | 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 2026-10-06 · 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 2026-10-07 · verify at EPA ECHO ↗
2 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, significant non-compliance in 5. In violation for, in EPA's words: 0999=Chlorine; 2456=Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5); 2950=TTHM; 5000=Lead and Copper Rule; 5200=LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS; 7000=Consumer Confidence Rule; 7500=Public Notice; 8000=Revised Total Coliform Rule. Currently: 5000=Lead and Copper Rule; 5200=LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS; 7000=Consumer Confidence Rule; 7500=Public Notice.
What happened
All 6 violation records on file, grouped into the 4 distinct things EPA's codes describe. Dates are the compliance period the violation is filed against.
Rule: Public Notice Rule -- telling customers about a problem.
Rule: Lead and Copper Rule -- corrosion of household plumbing.
EPA violation code 2E, contaminant 5200 — not in the code table this build carries.
Rule: Groundwater Rule -- protecting wells from faecal contamination.
Every violation record, as filed (6 of 6)
| Compliance period | What | About | Kind | Status | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-03 | PN Violation for NPDWR Violation | Public Notice | other | open | |
| 2025-10-01 | Follow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/R | Lead and Copper Rule | monitoring and reporting | open | |
| 2024-10-17 | code 2E | health-based | returned to compliance (2026-06-30) | ||
| 2024-02-14 | Failure To Address Deficiency | Groundwater Rule | health-based | returned to compliance (2025-07-23) | |
| 2024-02-14 | Failure To Address Deficiency | Groundwater Rule | health-based | returned to compliance (2025-12-31) | |
| 2024-02-14 | Failure To Address Deficiency | Groundwater Rule | health-based | returned to compliance (2025-12-31) |
What the regulator did about it
109 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-10 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2026-06-30 | St Compliance achieved 2E & 4G vios for LSLI RTC through 06/30/26 submission of a LSLI that identifies all service lines and uses approved verification methods to classify 6 as non-lead and 303 as unknown material (lfra 07/06/26); |
state |
| 2026-04-17 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2026-04-17 | St Compliance achieved 75 vio for 2E PN RTC through PN/COD submitted 3/13/26 certifying same day distribution, per wiki SOX date must be on or after issuance date so using issue date (lfra 04/17/26); |
state |
| 2026-03-20 | St Compliance achieved 2025 CCR violation RTC through adequate 2026 CCR distributed 03/13/26 and certified on 03/20/26 (lfra 03/20/26); |
state |
| 2026-03-13 | St Compliance achieved PN/COD for LSLI, M&R, and PFAS received 03/13/26 (lfra 03/16/26); |
state |
| 2026-03-13 | St Public Notif received PN/COD for LSLI violation received 03/13/26 (lfra 03/16/26); |
state |
| 2026-03-02 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2026-01-12 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2025-12-31 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2025-12-31 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2025-11-05 | St Public Notif received PN/COD for all violations cited in EO DW.09.24.121325 and PFOA/PFAS Health Advisory received 11/05/25 indicating distribution was completed on 10/29/25 (lfra 11/06/25); |
state |
| 2025-11-05 | St Compliance achieved PN/COD for all violations cited in EO DW.09.24.121325 and PFOA/PFAS Health Advisory received 11/05/25 indicating distribution was completed on 10/29/25 (lfra 11/06/25); |
state |
| 2025-11-05 | St Public Notif received | state |
| 2025-11-05 | St Public Notif received | state |
| 2025-10-23 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2025-10-20 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2025-10-20 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2025-10-20 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2025-10-20 | St Public Notif requested | state |
20 most recent of 109; the rest are on the ECHO report.
Lead and copper
The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.0 mg/L (sampling period ending 2022-12-31) against an action level of 0.015 mg/L, below it. 9 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).
What changed recently
Differences EPA's monthly federal record showed against the month before. A date in brackets is EPA's own; otherwise it is when this site first saw the change.
- Enforcement action: St Violation/Reminder Notice (2026-08-10)
- Returned to compliance (2026-06-30)
- Enforcement action: St Compliance achieved (2026-06-30)
- New violation: PN Violation for NPDWR Violation — Public Notice (2026-06-03)
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Common questions
Who provides drinking water in Colorado Springs, Colorado?
Garden Valley is the public water system serving 900 people in El Paso County, from groundwater. Its EPA public water system id is CO0121325.
Where does Garden Valley get its water?
Garden Valley reports groundwater as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as NO 8 WELL, NEW WELL 75667F, NEW WELL 75666FR, NO 1 WELL.
Does Garden Valley have any drinking water violations?
EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for Garden Valley at the last monthly fetch. Older and non-health-based entries, if any, are listed on this page.
Every provider in El Paso County.
The record
EPA SDWIS federal reporting as of 2026-10-06; the compliance record above is EPA's own, fetched monthly, and the ECHO report carries the rest. Report a problem →