Hydrohistorian
Town of Ramah
Serves Ramah.
Modelled boundary. EPA estimated this service area (Random Forest) rather than tracing a utility-supplied map; treat the edge as approximate. About 1 km².
Where the water comes from
| Facility | Kind | Water |
|---|---|---|
| WELL A1 | Well | Groundwater |
| WELL A2 | 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 ↗
3 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. In violation for, in EPA's words: 2456=Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5); 2950=TTHM; 4010=Combined Radium (-226 and -228); 5000=Lead and Copper Rule; 5200=LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS. Currently: 5000=Lead and Copper Rule; 5200=LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS.
What happened
All 5 violation records on file, grouped into the 3 distinct things EPA's codes describe. Dates are the compliance period the violation is filed against.
EPA violation code 4H, contaminant 5200 — not in the code table this build carries.
Rule: Lead and Copper Rule -- corrosion of household plumbing.
Rule: Groundwater Rule -- protecting wells from faecal contamination.
Every violation record, as filed (5 of 5)
| Compliance period | What | About | Kind | Status | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-02 | code 4H | monitoring and reporting | open | ||
| 2025-10-01 | Follow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/R | Lead and Copper Rule | monitoring and reporting | open | |
| 2025-07-02 | code 4H | monitoring and reporting | open | ||
| 2023-10-23 | Failure To Address Deficiency | Groundwater Rule | health-based | returned to compliance (2025-03-26) | |
| 2023-10-23 | Failure To Address Deficiency | Groundwater Rule | health-based | returned to compliance (2024-06-27) |
What the regulator did about it
67 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-30 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2026-07-30 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2026-01-26 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2026-01-26 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2026-01-26 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2026-01-26 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2026-01-26 | St Compliance achieved FTM rads RTC through timely collected late reported samples, reported 1/14/26 but per wiki if supplier reported before vio issuance, the issuance date = SOX date (lfra 02/09/26); |
state |
| 2025-10-20 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2025-10-20 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2025-08-27 | St Compliance achieved FTM DBP in sequence year 2 of 3Y2023-2025 RTC through DBPs collected 08/27/25 and reported 09/10/25 (lfra 11/12/25); |
state |
| 2025-07-25 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2025-07-25 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2025-06-30 | St Public Notif received PN for non-health-based FSS Tier 3 violations achieved within CCR distributed and submitted on 06/30/25 (lfra 07/09/25); |
state |
| 2025-04-03 | St Public Notif received | state |
| 2025-03-26 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2025-03-04 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2025-03-04 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2024-11-05 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2024-11-05 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2024-06-27 | St Compliance achieved | state |
20 most recent of 67; the rest are on the ECHO report.
Lead and copper
The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.0 mg/L (sampling period ending 2028-12-31) 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 2026-10-09 · 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 (2026-07-30)
- Enforcement action: St Public Notif requested (2026-07-30)
- New violation (2026-07-02)
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Common questions
Who provides drinking water in Ramah, Colorado?
The Town of Ramah is the public water system serving 125 people in El Paso County, from groundwater. Its EPA public water system id is CO0121675.
Where does the Town of Ramah get its water?
The Town of Ramah reports groundwater as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as WELL A1, WELL A2.
Does the Town of Ramah have any drinking water violations?
EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for the Town of Ramah 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 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 →