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Ranch at Roaring Fork

Ranch at Roaring Fork is the public water system serving 300 people in Garfield County, from groundwater. EPA modelled this service area rather than tracing it from a utility map, so treat the edge as approximate.
Community system · EPA id CO0123667 · filed with EPA as “RANCH AT ROARING FORK”

Serves Mulford.

People served
300
Service connections
126
Primary source
Groundwater
Owner
Private
Counties served
Garfield
Water district

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

FacilityKindWater
WELL NO 3WellGroundwater
WELL NO 1 SKINNER WELLWellGroundwater

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 ↗

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 2. In violation for, in EPA's words: 1040=Nitrate; 2456=Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5); 2950=TTHM; 4006=Combined Uranium; 4010=Combined Radium (-226 and -228); 5000=Lead and Copper Rule; 7500=Public Notice. Currently: 5000=Lead and Copper Rule; 7500=Public Notice.

What happened

All 3 violation records on file, grouped into the 2 distinct things EPA's codes describe. Dates are the compliance period the violation is filed against.

PN Violation without NPDWR Violation — Public Notice other 2 open
A requirement other than a limit, a sample or a notice was not met. 2 records, 2024-09-15 to 2024-12-15.
Rule: Public Notice Rule -- telling customers about a problem.
Treatment Technique No Certif. Operator — DBP Stage 1 health-based
A required treatment step was not carried out or not proved. 1 record, 2020-08-01.
Rule: Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule.
Every violation record, as filed (3 of 3)
Compliance periodWhatAboutKindStatusMeasured
2024-12-15 PN Violation without NPDWR Violation Public Notice other open
2024-09-15 PN Violation without NPDWR Violation Public Notice other open
2020-08-01 Treatment Technique No Certif. Operator DBP Stage 1 health-based returned to compliance (2020-09-07)

What the regulator did about it

66 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.

DateActionBy
2026-02-06 St Compliance achieved
RTC with late reporting on 01/30/2026 ESS 2/6/26
state
2026-02-06 St Compliance achieved
Sampled for LCR in 2025, submitted on 10/06/2025 SOXing ESS 2/6/26
state
2026-01-30 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2026-01-30 St Public Notif requested state
2026-01-30 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2026-01-30 St Public Notif requested state
2026-01-30 St Compliance achieved
Late reported on 1/24/26 SOXing ESS 1/30/26
state
2025-05-29 St Compliance achieved
collection date to RTC in 2025 BJK
state
2025-02-06 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2025-02-06 St Public Notif requested state
2024-12-31 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2024-12-21 St Compliance achieved state
2024-11-12 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2024-11-12 St Public Notif requested state
2024-10-09 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2024-08-15 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2024-08-15 St Public Notif requested state
2024-06-30 St Compliance achieved
Closing and SOX'ing 2023 ccr vio because 2024 ccr and ccr cod was submitted on 6/30/2024. MHE 7/1/2024
state
2024-06-28 St Public Notif received
tier 3 pn included in 2024 CCR, distributed on 6/28/2024 and reported 6/30/2024. MHE 7/1/2024
state
2024-01-19 St Violation/Reminder Notice state

20 most recent of 66; the rest are on the ECHO report.

Lead and copper

The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.0 mg/L (sampling period ending 2025-12-31) against an action level of 0.015 mg/L, below it. 6 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 Carbondale, Colorado?

Ranch at Roaring Fork is the public water system serving 300 people in Garfield County, from groundwater. Its EPA public water system id is CO0123667.

Where does Ranch at Roaring Fork get its water?

Ranch at Roaring Fork reports groundwater as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as WELL NO 3, WELL NO 1 SKINNER WELL.

Does Ranch at Roaring Fork have any drinking water violations?

EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for Ranch at Roaring Fork 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 Garfield 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 →