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Somerset Domestic Water District

Somerset Domestic Water District is the public water system serving 100 people in Gunnison County, from groundwater under the influence of surface water. EPA modelled this service area rather than tracing it from a utility map, so treat the edge as approximate.
Community system · EPA id CO0126715 · filed with EPA as “SOMERSET DOMESTIC WD”
People served
100
Service connections
63
Primary source
Groundwater under the influence of surface water
Owner
Local government
Counties served
Gunnison
Water district

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

FacilityKindWater
WELL NO 1 AKA INF GALWellGroundwater 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 2026-09-09 · 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 20 health-based violations appear on the federal record historically. The history is below.

EPA's own summary: violations in 6 of the last 12 quarters. In violation for, in EPA's words: 0300=Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule; 2456=Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5); 2950=TTHM. Currently: 2456=Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5); 2950=TTHM.

What happened

All 20 violation records on file, grouped into the 2 distinct things EPA's codes describe. Dates are the compliance period the violation is filed against.

MCL, Average — TTHM health-based
A measured contaminant level went over the federal limit. 19 records, 2016-01-01 to 2023-10-01. Highest measured: 0.152 MG/L against a limit of 0.08.
Rule: Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule.
Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR) — SWTR health-based
A required treatment step was not carried out or not proved. 1 record, 2021-11-01.
Rule: Surface Water Treatment Rule -- filtration and disinfection.
Every violation record, as filed (12 of 20)
Compliance periodWhatAboutKindStatusMeasured
2023-10-01 – 2023-12-31 MCL, Average TTHM health-based returned to compliance (2024-02-16) 0.084 MG/L (limit 0.08)
2023-07-01 – 2023-09-30 MCL, Average TTHM health-based returned to compliance (2024-02-16) 0.082 MG/L (limit 0.08)
2021-11-01 – 2021-11-30 Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR) SWTR health-based returned to compliance (2022-01-05)
2020-10-01 – 2020-12-31 MCL, Average TTHM health-based returned to compliance (2021-02-08) 0.0894 MG/L (limit 0.08)
2020-07-01 – 2020-09-30 MCL, Average TTHM health-based returned to compliance (2021-02-08) 0.089 MG/L (limit 0.08)
2020-04-01 – 2020-06-30 MCL, Average TTHM health-based returned to compliance (2021-02-08) 0.10224 MG/L (limit 0.08)
2020-01-01 – 2020-03-31 MCL, Average TTHM health-based returned to compliance (2021-02-08) 0.0931 MG/L (limit 0.08)
2019-10-01 – 2019-12-31 MCL, Average TTHM health-based returned to compliance (2021-02-08) 0.095 MG/L (limit 0.08)
2019-07-01 – 2019-09-30 MCL, Average TTHM health-based returned to compliance (2021-02-08) 0.092 MG/L (limit 0.08)
2018-07-01 – 2018-09-30 MCL, Average TTHM health-based returned to compliance (2021-02-08) 0.0859 MG/L (limit 0.08)
2018-04-01 – 2018-06-30 MCL, Average TTHM health-based returned to compliance (2021-02-08) 0.115 MG/L (limit 0.08)
2018-01-01 – 2018-03-31 MCL, Average TTHM health-based returned to compliance (2021-02-08) 0.123 MG/L (limit 0.08)

The remaining 8 are on the ECHO report.

What the regulator did about it

99 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
2026-04-20 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2026-04-20 St Public Notif requested state
2026-04-20 St Compliance achieved
SOXing; 1Q 2026 sample reported on 4/20/2026. MM 4/27/2026
state
2025-05-21 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2025-05-21 St Public Notif requested state
2024-10-25 St Compliance achieved state
2024-10-07 St Compliance achieved state
2024-08-12 St Compliance achieved state
2024-08-09 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2024-06-27 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2024-06-27 St Public Notif requested state
2024-06-27 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2024-06-27 St Public Notif requested state
2024-06-27 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2024-06-27 St Public Notif requested state
2024-04-24 St Public Notif received
PN requirement met with 2024 CCR. MM 5/2/2024
state
2024-02-16 St Compliance achieved
SOXing; monitored and reported correctly in 1Q 2024 without additional M&R and MCL violations. MM 5/10/2024
state
2024-01-10 St Public Notif received
PN performed and COD received on 1/10/2024. MM 1/11/2024
state
2023-12-13 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2023-12-13 St Public Notif requested state

20 most recent of 99; 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. Copper 2.16 mg/L against 1.3 mg/L, above it. 17 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 Somerset, Colorado?

Somerset Domestic Water District is the public water system serving 100 people in Gunnison County, from groundwater under the influence of surface water. Its EPA public water system id is CO0126715.

Where does Somerset Domestic Water District get its water?

Somerset Domestic Water District reports groundwater under the influence of surface water as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as WELL NO 1 AKA INF GAL.

Does Somerset Domestic Water District have any drinking water violations?

EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for Somerset Domestic Water District at the last monthly fetch. Older and non-health-based entries, if any, are listed on this page.

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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 →