Hydrohistorian
Rock Creek Mesa
Boundary traced from IRE. About 2 km².
Where the water comes from
| Facility | Kind | Water |
|---|---|---|
| UPPER RESERVOIR #4 IN ROCK CREEK CANYON | Intake | Surface water |
| PURCHASED FROM CO00121900 | Non-piped, purchased | Groundwater · from WIDEFIELD WSD |
| RESERVOIR #2 IN ROCK CREEK CANYON | Intake | Surface water |
| WELL NO 1 | 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
Buys water from WIDEFIELD WSD.
Sells water to 1 system: CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN ESTATES MHP.
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 ↗
Nothing open today, but 1 health-based violation appears on the federal record historically. The history is below.
EPA's own summary: violations in 0 of the last 12 quarters.
What happened
All 1 violation record on file, grouped into the 1 distinct thing EPA's codes describe. Dates are the compliance period the violation is filed against.
Rule: Surface Water Treatment Rule -- filtration and disinfection.
Every violation record, as filed (1 of 1)
| Compliance period | What | About | Kind | Status | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-01-12 | Failure to Filter (SWTR) | SWTR | health-based | returned to compliance (2017-06-30) |
What the regulator did about it
13 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-01-10 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2018-01-10 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2018-01-05 | St Compliance achieved Consumer notification turned in 01/11/2018 AH |
state |
| 2017-06-30 | St Compliance achieved installed filters, demonstration scale |
state |
| 2017-03-23 | St Compliance achieved IOCs and fluoride sampled in 2016 |
state |
| 2017-01-18 | St Public Notif received | state |
| 2017-01-13 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2017-01-13 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2016-09-02 | St Compliance achieved SOX'd, sampled each month throughout 2016 |
state |
| 2016-02-10 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2016-02-10 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2016-02-10 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2016-02-10 | St Public Notif requested | state |
Lead and copper
The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.0015 mg/L (sampling period ending 2025-12-31) 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 Colorado Springs, Colorado?
Rock Creek Mesa is the public water system serving 225 people in El Paso County, from surface water. Its EPA public water system id is CO0121725.
Where does Rock Creek Mesa get its water?
Rock Creek Mesa reports surface water as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as UPPER RESERVOIR #4 IN ROCK CREEK CANYON, PURCHASED FROM CO00121900, RESERVOIR #2 IN ROCK CREEK CANYON, WELL NO 1.
Does Rock Creek Mesa have any drinking water violations?
EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for Rock Creek Mesa 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 2026-09-08; the compliance record above is EPA's own, fetched monthly, and the ECHO report carries the rest. Report a problem →