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Mountain Water & Sanitation District

Mountain Water & Sanitation District is the public water system serving 1,941 people in Jefferson County, from groundwater under the influence of surface water.
Community system · EPA id CO0130100 · filed with EPA as “MOUNTAIN WSD”
People served
1,941
Service connections
399
Primary source
Groundwater under the influence of surface water
Owner
Local government
Counties served
Jefferson
Water district

Boundary traced from IRE. About 3 km².

Where the water comes from

FacilityKindWater
WELL 38-1WellGroundwater
WELL TRACT AWellGroundwater
WELL 5-2WellGroundwater under the influence of surface water
WELL 5-1WellGroundwater
WELL 26-6WellGroundwater
WELL SA-1WellGroundwater under the influence of surface water
WELL SA-2WellGroundwater
WELL SA-3WellGroundwater
WELL 21-AWellGroundwater
WELL 17-5WellGroundwater
WELL KVSWellGroundwater
WELL TRACT A BWellGroundwater
WELL SKVWellGroundwater
WELL TRACT CWellGroundwater
WELL 17-1WellGroundwater
WELL 121-5WellGroundwater
WELL 123-5WellGroundwater

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 3 health-based violations appear on the federal record historically. The history is below.

EPA's own summary: violations in 5 of the last 12 quarters. In violation for, in EPA's words: 0200=Surface Water Treatment Rule; 0300=Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule; 4000=Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U. Currently: 4000=Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U.

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.

MCL, Average — Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U health-based
A measured contaminant level went over the federal limit. 2 records, 2026-01-01 to 2026-04-01. Highest measured: 18.0 PCI/L against a limit of 15.0.
Rule: Radionuclides -- radium, uranium and gross alpha.
Monthly Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR) — Ieswtr health-based
A required treatment step was not carried out or not proved. 1 record, 2024-05-01.
Rule: Long Term 1 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule.
Every violation record, as filed (3 of 3)
Compliance periodWhatAboutKindStatusMeasured
2026-04-01 – 2026-06-30 MCL, Average Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U health-based known, archived 18.0 PCI/L (limit 15.0)
2026-01-01 – 2026-03-31 MCL, Average Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U health-based known, archived 17.0 PCI/L (limit 15.0)
2024-05-01 – 2024-05-31 Monthly Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR) Ieswtr health-based returned to compliance (2024-07-10)

What the regulator did about it

21 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
2026-05-21 St Public Notif received state
2026-05-11 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2026-05-11 St Public Notif requested state
2026-04-08 St Public Notif received state
2026-03-09 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2026-03-09 St Public Notif requested state
2025-07-15 St Compliance achieved state
2025-07-14 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2025-07-14 St Public Notif requested state
2024-11-14 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2024-11-14 St Public Notif requested state
2024-11-14 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2024-11-14 St Public Notif requested state
2024-11-12 St Compliance achieved
Submitted Oct2024 MOR after compliance deadline. TJ 11/14/2024
state
2024-07-24 St Public Notif received state
2024-07-10 St Compliance achieved
One month without additional M&R or TT violations in accordance with the Rule.
state
2024-06-25 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2024-06-25 St Public Notif requested state
2021-02-09 St Compliance achieved state
2021-01-19 St Violation/Reminder Notice state

20 most recent of 21; the rest are on the ECHO report.

Lead and copper

The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.004 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 2026-10-09 · 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).

What changed recently

Differences EPA's monthly federal record showed against the month before. A date in brackets is EPA's own; otherwise it is when this site first saw the change.

  • Enforcement action: St Public Notif received (2026-05-21)

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Common questions

Who provides drinking water in Conifer, Colorado?

Mountain Water & Sanitation District is the public water system serving 1,941 people in Jefferson County, from groundwater under the influence of surface water. Its EPA public water system id is CO0130100.

Where does Mountain Water & Sanitation District get its water?

Mountain Water & Sanitation District reports groundwater under the influence of surface water as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as WELL 38-1, WELL TRACT A, WELL 5-2, WELL 5-1.

Does Mountain Water & Sanitation District have any drinking water violations?

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

Every provider in Jefferson 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 →