Hydrohistorian
Turkey Canon Ranch Water District
Its service area also reaches Fountain Creek (48.0%).
Boundary traced from IRE. About 1 km².
Where the water comes from
| Facility | Kind | Water |
|---|---|---|
| WELL NO 2 | Well | Groundwater |
| WELL NO 1 | 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 ↗
Nothing open today, but 5 health-based violations appear on the federal record historically. The history is below.
EPA's own summary: violations in 3 of the last 12 quarters. In violation for, in EPA's words: 4000=Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U; 4006=Combined Uranium.
What happened
All 5 violation records on file, grouped into the 1 distinct thing EPA's codes describe. Dates are the compliance period the violation is filed against.
Rule: Radionuclides -- radium, uranium and gross alpha.
Every violation record, as filed (5 of 5)
| Compliance period | What | About | Kind | Status | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-07-01 – 2020-09-30 | MCL, Average | Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | health-based | returned to compliance (2021-08-12) | 16.32 PCI/L (limit 15.0) |
| 2020-04-01 – 2020-06-30 | MCL, Average | Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | health-based | returned to compliance (2021-08-12) | 18.58 PCI/L (limit 15.0) |
| 2020-01-01 – 2020-03-31 | MCL, Average | Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | health-based | returned to compliance (2021-08-12) | 17.27 PCI/L (limit 15.0) |
| 2019-10-01 – 2019-12-31 | MCL, Average | Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | health-based | returned to compliance (2021-08-12) | 21.77 PCI/L (limit 15.0) |
| 2019-07-01 – 2019-09-30 | MCL, Average | Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | health-based | returned to compliance (2021-08-12) | 18.86 PCI/L (limit 15.0) |
What the regulator did about it
58 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-06-30 | St Public Notif received PN achieved within CCR (lfra 07/04/24) |
state |
| 2024-01-19 | St Compliance achieved FTM 4000/4006 for 2Q2022, then late reporting of 4000/4006 for YR2023 (collected on time); returning both FTM and FTR to compliance with late reported date of 1/19/24 (lfra 3/25/24) |
state |
| 2024-01-16 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2024-01-16 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2024-01-16 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2024-01-16 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2022-07-15 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2022-07-15 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2022-07-15 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2022-07-15 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2022-03-15 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2022-01-27 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2022-01-27 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2022-01-27 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2022-01-27 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2021-11-10 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2021-11-10 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2021-10-10 | St Compliance achieved System distributed consumer notice on time, but submitted to the Department late on 10/10/2021. hpo 11/10/2021 |
state |
| 2021-08-12 | St Compliance achieved System has more than 2 consecutive quarters with the LRAA less than the MCL. Leaving EO open but SOXing MCL violations. hpo 8/12/2021 |
state |
| 2020-11-16 | St Public Notif received | state |
20 most recent of 58; the rest are on the ECHO report.
Lead and copper
The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.0015 mg/L (sampling period ending 2024-12-31) against an action level of 0.015 mg/L, below it. 10 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 2026-09-09 · 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?
Turkey Canon Ranch Water District is the public water system serving 138 people in El Paso County, from groundwater. Its EPA public water system id is CO0121841.
Where does Turkey Canon Ranch Water District get its water?
Turkey Canon Ranch Water District reports groundwater as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as WELL NO 2, WELL NO 1.
Does Turkey Canon Ranch Water District have any drinking water violations?
EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for Turkey Canon Ranch Water District 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 →