Big Elk Meadows Water Association☆

Where the water comes from

Facility	Kind	Water
STABLE WELL	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
POOL WELL	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
MEADOW WELL	Well	Groundwater under the influence of surface water
MIRROR LAKE	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.

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

1 structure on DWR's record 1 matches an EPA intake by name. A match says who DWR lists, not who owns the water: a ditch company can own the headgate while the system owns shares, and a consultant can be the contact. The dossier holds the decree.

Compliance record

Source Register of another agency · fetched 2026-09-09 · verify at EPA ECHO ↗

EPA's own summary: violations in 7 of the last 12 quarters. In violation for, in EPA's words: 0200=Surface Water Treatment Rule; 0300=Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule; 5000=Lead and Copper Rule; 7500=Public Notice. Currently: 5000=Lead and Copper Rule; 7500=Public Notice.

What happened

All 9 violation records on file, grouped into the 5 distinct things EPA's codes describe. Dates are the compliance period the violation is filed against.

Every violation record, as filed (9 of 9)

Compliance period	What	About	Kind	Status	Measured
2026-01-01	OCCT/SOWT Study/Recommendation	Lead and Copper Rule	health-based	open
2025-02-14	PN Violation without NPDWR Violation	Public Notice	other	open
2018-11-04	Failure To Address Deficiency	Groundwater Rule	health-based	returned to compliance (2020-02-04)
2018-11-04	Failure To Address Deficiency	Groundwater Rule	health-based	returned to compliance (2020-01-09)
2018-11-04	Failure To Address Deficiency	Groundwater Rule	health-based	returned to compliance (2019-12-18)
2018-11-04	Failure To Address Deficiency	Groundwater Rule	health-based	returned to compliance (2019-12-10)
2017-04-01	Treatment Technique No Certif. Operator	DBP Stage 1	health-based	returned to compliance (2018-02-09)
2017-04-01	OCCT/SOWT Study/Recommendation	Lead and Copper Rule	health-based	returned to compliance (2017-10-13)
2016-12-01	Public Education	Lead and Copper Rule	health-based	returned to compliance (2017-10-10)

What the regulator did about it

96 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.

20 most recent of 96; the rest are on the ECHO report.

Lead and copper

The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.003 mg/L (sampling period ending 2025-12-31) against an action level of 0.015 mg/L, below it. Copper 1.44 mg/L against 1.3 mg/L, above it. 21 results on file, 1 lead result over the action level all time.

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 Ft Morgan, Colorado?

Big Elk Meadows Water Association is the public water system serving 405 people in Larimer County, from surface water. Its EPA public water system id is CO0135143.

Where does Big Elk Meadows Water Association get its water?

Big Elk Meadows Water Association reports surface water as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as STABLE WELL, POOL WELL, MEADOW WELL, MIRROR LAKE.

Does Big Elk Meadows Water Association have any drinking water violations?

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