Hydrohistorian
Purgatory Metropolitan 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
| Facility | Kind | Water |
|---|---|---|
| NEW WELL 6 | Well | Groundwater |
| WELL NO 4 MAIN WELL | Well | Groundwater |
| WELL NO 5 BACKUP WELL | Well | Groundwater |
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 ↗
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 4 of the last 12 quarters. In violation for, in EPA's words: 0999=Chlorine; 2955=Xylenes, Total; 8000=Revised Total Coliform Rule.
No health-based or open violation on the federal record for this system.
What the regulator did about it
22 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-02 | St Compliance achieved System sampled correctly for xylene during 3Q2025 on 7.2.2025 RNK 8.8.25 |
state |
| 2024-10-31 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2024-10-31 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2024-06-19 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2024-06-19 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2024-06-19 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2024-06-19 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2024-06-04 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2023-05-04 | St Compliance achieved xylenes monitored 10/06/2022 LCY 5.4.2023 |
state |
| 2022-11-02 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2022-11-02 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2020-05-20 | St Compliance achieved Sampled in the next monitoring period STY 8/6/2020 |
state |
| 2020-05-05 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2020-05-05 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2019-07-16 | St Compliance achieved sampled in next monitoring period |
state |
| 2019-07-09 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2019-07-09 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2018-08-06 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2018-08-06 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2018-08-06 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
20 most recent of 22; the rest are on the ECHO report.
Lead and copper
The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.002 mg/L (sampling period ending 2025-12-31) against an action level of 0.015 mg/L, below it. 8 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 Durango, Colorado?
Purgatory Metropolitan District is the public water system serving 1,364 people in La Plata County, from groundwater. Its EPA public water system id is CO0134750.
Where does Purgatory Metropolitan District get its water?
Purgatory Metropolitan District reports groundwater as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as NEW WELL 6, WELL NO 4 MAIN WELL, WELL NO 5 BACKUP WELL.
Does Purgatory Metropolitan District have any drinking water violations?
EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for Purgatory Metropolitan District 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 2026-09-08; the compliance record above is EPA's own, fetched monthly, and the ECHO report carries the rest. Report a problem →