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Town of Stratton

The Town of Stratton is the public water system serving 960 people in Kit Carson County, from groundwater. EPA modelled this service area rather than tracing it from a utility map, so treat the edge as approximate.
Community system · EPA id CO0132020 · filed with EPA as “STRATTON TOWN OF”

Serves Stratton.

People served
960
Service connections
367
Primary source
Groundwater
Owner
Local government
Counties served
Kit Carson
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
LIMING WELLWellGroundwater
RAMOS WELLWellGroundwater
GRASSER WELLWellGroundwater

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 3 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: 2456=Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5); 2950=TTHM.

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.

Treatment Technique No Certif. Operator — DBP Stage 1 health-based
A required treatment step was not carried out or not proved. 1 record, 2022-02-01.
Rule: Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule.
Failure To Address Deficiency — Groundwater Rule health-based
A required treatment step was not carried out or not proved. 2 records, 2018-06-03.
Rule: Groundwater Rule -- protecting wells from faecal contamination.
Every violation record, as filed (3 of 3)
Compliance periodWhatAboutKindStatusMeasured
2022-02-01 Treatment Technique No Certif. Operator DBP Stage 1 health-based returned to compliance (2022-04-14)
2018-06-03 Failure To Address Deficiency Groundwater Rule health-based returned to compliance (2019-12-04)
2018-06-03 Failure To Address Deficiency Groundwater Rule health-based returned to compliance (2020-02-04)

What the regulator did about it

68 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
2024-07-29 St Compliance achieved
System submitted adquate sample set in 2024 on 029/2024. JAD 10/01/2024,
state
2024-06-30 St Compliance achieved
System reported 2024 CCR on 06/30/2024 - znk 11/11/2024
state
2024-04-09 St Compliance achieved state
2024-01-11 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2024-01-11 St Public Notif requested state
2023-10-18 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2023-10-18 St Public Notif requested state
2023-10-18 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2023-10-18 St Public Notif requested state
2023-10-18 St Compliance achieved state
2023-07-18 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2023-07-18 St Public Notif requested state
2023-02-21 St Compliance achieved state
2023-01-12 St Compliance achieved state
2023-01-11 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2023-01-11 St Public Notif requested state
2023-01-09 St Compliance achieved state
2023-01-09 St Public Notif received state
2023-01-02 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2022-12-21 St Compliance achieved state

20 most recent of 68; the rest are on the ECHO report.

Lead and copper

The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.0008 mg/L (sampling period ending 2025-12-31) against an action level of 0.015 mg/L, below it. 9 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 Stratton, Colorado?

The Town of Stratton is the public water system serving 960 people in Kit Carson County, from groundwater. Its EPA public water system id is CO0132020.

Where does the Town of Stratton get its water?

The Town of Stratton reports groundwater as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as LIMING WELL, RAMOS WELL, GRASSER WELL.

Does the Town of Stratton have any drinking water violations?

EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for the Town of Stratton 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 2026-09-08; the compliance record above is EPA's own, fetched monthly, and the ECHO report carries the rest. Report a problem →