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Town of Flagler

The Town of Flagler is the public water system serving 2,160 people in Kit Carson County, from groundwater.
Community system · EPA id CO0132010 · filed with EPA as “FLAGLER TOWN OF”

Serves Flagler.

People served
2,160
Service connections
345
Primary source
Groundwater
Owner
Local government
Counties served
Kit Carson
Water district

Boundary traced from WSP. About 2 km².

Where the water comes from

FacilityKindWater
FAGERLAND WELLWellGroundwater
OTTEMAN WELLWellGroundwater
BREDEHOFF WELLWellGroundwater
WEATHERLY WELL MAINWellGroundwater
TGUARD WELL SUMMER USEWellGroundwater
BRIGGS WELL SUMMER USEWellGroundwater
WILCOX WELL SUMMER USEWellGroundwater

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.

What happened

All 2 violation records on file, grouped into the 1 distinct thing EPA's codes describe. Dates are the compliance period the violation is filed against.

MCL, Average — Nitrate health-based
A measured contaminant level went over the federal limit. 2 records, 2016-04-01 to 2017-01-01. Highest measured: 13.1 MG/L against a limit of 10.0.
Rule: Nitrate and nitrite.
Every violation record, as filed (2 of 2)
Compliance periodWhatAboutKindStatusMeasured
2017-01-01 – 2017-03-31 MCL, Average Nitrate health-based returned to compliance (2017-11-15) 13.1 MG/L (limit 10.0)
2016-04-01 – 2016-06-30 MCL, Average Nitrate health-based returned to compliance (2016-11-07) 11.0 MG/L (limit 10.0)

What the regulator did about it

25 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
2024-07-15 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2024-07-15 St Public Notif requested state
2024-07-02 St Compliance achieved
ccr submitted
state
2022-11-30 St Compliance achieved state
2022-10-18 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2020-04-23 St Public Notif received
PN done in CCR. LAC 5/4/2020
state
2019-04-30 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2019-04-30 St Public Notif requested state
2019-04-30 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2019-04-30 St Public Notif requested state
2019-04-08 St Compliance achieved
System sampled correctly with no issues in April 2019, therefore applying SOX. LAC 5/9/2019
state
2017-11-15 St Compliance achieved
RTC with 2 quarters in compliance with the nitrate MCL. ejc
state
2017-07-28 St Compliance achieved state
2017-03-02 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2017-03-02 St Public Notif requested state
2017-03-02 St Public Notif received state
2017-01-06 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2017-01-06 St Public Notif requested state
2017-01-06 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2017-01-06 St Public Notif requested state

20 most recent of 25; 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. 14 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 Flagler, Colorado?

The Town of Flagler is the public water system serving 2,160 people in Kit Carson County, from groundwater. Its EPA public water system id is CO0132010.

Where does the Town of Flagler get its water?

The Town of Flagler reports groundwater as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as FAGERLAND WELL, OTTEMAN WELL, BREDEHOFF WELL, WEATHERLY WELL MAIN.

Does the Town of Flagler have any drinking water violations?

EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for the Town of Flagler 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 Kit Carson 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 →