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Forest Hills Md Riva Chase

Forest Hills Md Riva Chase is the public water system serving 400 people in Jefferson County, from groundwater. It buys water from Genesee Water & Sanitation District. EPA modelled this service area rather than tracing it from a utility map, so treat the edge as approximate.
Community system · EPA id CO0130033 · filed with EPA as “FOREST HILLS MD RIVA CHASE”
People served
400
Service connections
148
Primary source
Groundwater
Owner
Local government
Counties served
Jefferson
Water district

Modelled boundary. EPA estimated this service area (Random Forest) rather than tracing a utility-supplied map; treat the edge as approximate. About 1 km².

Where the water comes from

FacilityKindWater
PURCHASED FROM CO0130035 GENESEE WSDConsecutive connection (purchased)Surface water · from GENESEE WSD
WELL NO 10WellGroundwater
WELL NO 2AWellGroundwater
WELL NO 8WellGroundwater
WELL NO 3WellGroundwater
WELL NO 4WellGroundwater
WELL NO 5WellGroundwater
WELL NO 6WellGroundwater
WELL NO 7WellGroundwater
WELL NO 1WellGroundwater
WELL NO 9WellGroundwater

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 GENESEE WSD.

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 ↗

No open violation and no health-based violation on EPA's federal record for this system at the last monthly fetch. That is a record of reported compliance, not a test result: SDWIS carries violations, not routine sample values.

EPA's own summary: violations in 1 of the last 12 quarters. In violation for, in EPA's words: 2456=Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5); 2950=TTHM.

No health-based or open violation on the federal record for this system.

What the regulator did about it

4 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
2024-06-07 St Compliance achieved
System monitored and reported 2Q2024 sample, SOX eligible - znk 07/24/2024
state
2024-05-02 St Public Notif received state
2024-04-17 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2024-04-17 St Public Notif requested state

Lead and copper

The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.0035 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 Denver, Colorado?

Forest Hills Md Riva Chase is the public water system serving 400 people in Jefferson County, from groundwater. Its EPA public water system id is CO0130033.

Where does Forest Hills Md Riva Chase get its water?

Forest Hills Md Riva Chase reports groundwater as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as PURCHASED FROM CO0130035 GENESEE WSD, WELL NO 10, WELL NO 2A, WELL NO 8.

Does Forest Hills Md Riva Chase have any drinking water violations?

EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for Forest Hills Md Riva Chase 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 →