Hydrohistorian
Buckhorn Ranch Water System
Modelled boundary. EPA estimated this service area (Random Forest) rather than tracing a utility-supplied map; treat the edge as approximate. About 0 km².
Where the water comes from
| Facility | Kind | Water |
|---|---|---|
| WELL NO 1 | Well | Groundwater under the influence of surface water |
| WELL NO 2 | 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.
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 ↗
Nothing open today, but 2 health-based violations appear on the federal record historically. The history is below.
EPA's own summary: violations in 1 of the last 12 quarters. In violation for, in EPA's words: 0200=Surface Water Treatment Rule.
What happened
All 2 violation records on file, grouped into the 2 distinct things EPA's codes describe. Dates are the compliance period the violation is filed against.
Rule: Surface Water Treatment Rule -- filtration and disinfection.
Rule: Surface Water Treatment Rule -- filtration and disinfection.
Every violation record, as filed (2 of 2)
| Compliance period | What | About | Kind | Status | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-01 – 2025-02-28 | Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR) | SWTR | health-based | returned to compliance (2025-04-01) | |
| 2019-10-02 | Failure to Filter (SWTR) | SWTR | health-based | returned to compliance (2020-01-20) |
What the regulator did about it
34 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-04 | St Public Notif received | state |
| 2025-04-01 | St Compliance achieved SOXing; monitored and reported correctly for March 2025 (per MOR received 4/1/2025) without additional M&R or TT violations in accordance with the rule. MM 4/25/2025 |
state |
| 2025-03-05 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2025-03-05 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2023-02-01 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2022-12-16 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2022-12-16 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2022-12-16 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2022-12-16 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2022-07-15 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2022-07-06 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2022-07-06 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2022-01-05 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2022-01-05 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2021-12-29 | St Compliance achieved replacement LT2 samples collected at both sources BJK |
state |
| 2020-08-04 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2020-08-04 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2020-07-22 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2020-01-20 | St Compliance achieved As built submitted on 1/20/2020 BJK 2/7/2020 |
state |
| 2019-10-21 | St Public Notif received | state |
20 most recent of 34; the rest are on the ECHO report.
Lead and copper
The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.0005 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 2026-10-09 · 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).
Common questions
Who provides drinking water in Crested Butte, Colorado?
Buckhorn Ranch Water System is the public water system serving 205 people in Gunnison County, from groundwater under the influence of surface water. Its EPA public water system id is CO0126158.
Where does Buckhorn Ranch Water System get its water?
Buckhorn Ranch Water System reports groundwater under the influence of surface water as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as WELL NO 1, WELL NO 2.
Does Buckhorn Ranch Water System have any drinking water violations?
EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for Buckhorn Ranch Water System at the last monthly fetch. Older and non-health-based entries, if any, are listed on this page.
Every provider in Gunnison 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 →