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West Fort Collins Water District

West Fort Collins Water District is the public water system serving 4,000 people in Larimer County, from purchased surface water. It buys water from City of Fort Collins. It also sells water wholesale to 2 systems.
Community system · EPA id CO0135290 · filed with EPA as “WEST FORT COLLINS WD”

Serves Laporte.

People served
4,000
Service connections
1,000
Primary source
Purchased surface water
Owner
Local government
Counties served
Larimer
Water district

Boundary traced. About 47 km².

Where the water comes from

FacilityKindWater
PURCHASE FROM CO0135291 WATSON MASTERConsecutive connection (purchased)Surface water · from FT COLLINS CITY OF
PURCHASED SW FROM FT COLLINS 135291Consecutive connection (purchased)Surface water · from FT COLLINS CITY OF

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

Buys water from FT COLLINS CITY OF.

Sells water to 2 systems: POUDRE VALLEY MHC, GREELEY CITY OF.

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 ↗

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 0 of the last 12 quarters.

No health-based or open violation on the federal record for this system.

What the regulator did about it

31 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
2023-06-02 St Public Notif received
CCR used to meet PN requirement. MM 6/5/2023
state
2022-04-12 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2022-04-12 St Public Notif requested state
2022-04-12 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2022-04-12 St Public Notif requested state
2022-04-12 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2022-04-12 St Public Notif requested state
2022-04-07 St Compliance achieved
Monitored for April 2022. slh 4/20/2022
state
2021-09-10 St Compliance achieved
Monitored and reported correctly during 3Qtr 2021. slh 10/20/2021
state
2021-07-29 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2021-07-29 St Public Notif requested state
2020-09-18 St Compliance achieved
SOXed: Collected and submitted LCR samples as required by the rule. slh 04/14/2021
state
2020-08-11 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2020-07-02 St Compliance achieved state
2020-02-06 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2020-02-06 St Public Notif requested state
2020-01-10 St Compliance achieved state
2019-11-06 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2019-11-06 St Public Notif requested state
2019-05-16 St Compliance achieved state

20 most recent of 31; the rest are on the ECHO report.

Lead and copper

The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.0051 mg/L (sampling period ending 2025-12-31) against an action level of 0.015 mg/L, below it. 10 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 ↗

5 samples, 120 results, 2024-01-29 to 2024-11-04. No PFAS was detected at the reporting limits; lithium was not detected.

ContaminantResultsDetectedHighest, µg/LReporting limit
HFPO-DA 4 0 < 0.005 0.005
PFHxS 4 0 < 0.003 0.003
PFNA 4 0 < 0.004 0.004
PFOA 4 0 < 0.004 0.004
PFOS 4 0 < 0.004 0.004
lithium 4 0 < 9.0 9.0

Rows shown: every detected contaminant plus the regulated PFAS and lithium; the rest were below their reporting limits. These are UCMR monitoring samples, not compliance samples. EPA's April 2024 rule set 4.0 ng/L (0.004 µg/L) for PFOA and PFOS, the same as UCMR 5's reporting limit, so any detection of either is at or above it; the rule's compliance date and its other limits have been under revision since 2025 and are not applied here. State PFAS sampling is on CDPHE's pages ↗.

Common questions

Who provides drinking water in La Porte, Colorado?

West Fort Collins Water District is the public water system serving 4,000 people in Larimer County, from purchased surface water. Its EPA public water system id is CO0135290.

Where does West Fort Collins Water District get its water?

West Fort Collins Water District reports purchased surface water as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as PURCHASE FROM CO0135291 WATSON MASTER, PURCHASED SW FROM FT COLLINS 135291.

Does West Fort Collins Water District have any drinking water violations?

EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for West Fort Collins Water District 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 Larimer 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 →