Hydrohistorian
Lake Durango Water Association
Modelled boundary. EPA estimated this service area (Random Forest) rather than tracing a utility-supplied map; treat the edge as approximate. About 12 km².
Where the water comes from
| Facility | Kind | Water |
|---|---|---|
| LAKE DURANGO RESERVOIR | Intake | 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.
Wholesale connections
Sells water to 4 systems: DURANGO WEST MD NO 1, DURANGO WEST MD NO 2, LA PLATA WEST WATER AUTHORITY, LAPLATA VISTA ESTATES HOA.
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 7 health-based violations appear on the federal record historically. The history is below.
EPA's own summary: violations in 0 of the last 12 quarters.
What happened
All 7 violation records on file, grouped into the 4 distinct things EPA's codes describe. Dates are the compliance period the violation is filed against.
Rule: Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule.
Rule: Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule.
Rule: Long Term 1 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule.
Rule: Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule.
Every violation record, as filed (7 of 7)
| Compliance period | What | About | Kind | Status | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-06-01 | Treatment Technique No Certif. Operator | DBP Stage 1 | health-based | returned to compliance (2022-06-28) | |
| 2018-10-01 – 2018-12-31 | MCL, Average | TTHM | health-based | returned to compliance (2019-04-16) | 0.085 MG/L (limit 0.08) |
| 2018-10-01 – 2018-10-31 | Monthly Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR) | Ieswtr | health-based | returned to compliance (2018-12-17) | |
| 2018-07-01 – 2018-09-30 | MCL, Average | TTHM | health-based | returned to compliance (2019-04-16) | 0.084 MG/L (limit 0.08) |
| 2018-04-01 – 2018-06-30 | MCL, Average | TTHM | health-based | returned to compliance (2019-04-16) | 0.082 MG/L (limit 0.08) |
| 2018-01-01 – 2018-03-31 | MCL, Average | TTHM | health-based | returned to compliance (2019-04-16) | 0.083 MG/L (limit 0.08) |
| 2015-07-01 – 2015-09-30 | MCL, Average | Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | health-based | returned to compliance (2016-03-31) | 0.062 MG/L (limit 0.06) |
What the regulator did about it
56 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.
| Date | Action | By |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-04-05 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2022-11-02 | St Public Notif received | state |
| 2022-11-01 | St Compliance achieved PN performed. ORC was resolved. second round of PN not required. BJK |
state |
| 2022-07-28 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2022-07-28 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2022-07-28 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2022-06-28 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2022-06-07 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2022-06-07 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2021-07-20 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2021-07-20 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2021-04-23 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2021-01-25 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2021-01-25 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2020-02-06 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2020-02-06 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2020-01-03 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2019-10-02 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2019-10-02 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2019-09-16 | St Compliance achieved | state |
20 most recent of 56; the rest are on the ECHO report.
Lead and copper
The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.0007 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 2026-10-09 · 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 Durango, Colorado?
Lake Durango Water Association is the public water system serving 1,577 people in La Plata County, from surface water. Its EPA public water system id is CO0134530.
Where does Lake Durango Water Association get its water?
Lake Durango Water Association reports surface water as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as LAKE DURANGO RESERVOIR.
Does Lake Durango Water Association have any drinking water violations?
EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for Lake Durango Water Association at the last monthly fetch. Older and non-health-based entries, if any, are listed on this page.
Every provider in La Plata 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 →