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Spring Canyon Water & Sanitation District

Spring Canyon Water & Sanitation District is the public water system serving 2,320 people in Larimer County, from purchased surface water. It buys water from Fort Collins Loveland Water District.
Community system · EPA id CO0135721 · filed with EPA as “SPRING CANYON WSD”
People served
2,320
Service connections
565
Primary source
Purchased surface water
Owner
Local government
Counties served
Larimer
Water district

Its service area also reaches Big Thompson River (8.0%).

Boundary traced from IRE. About 6 km².

Where the water comes from

FacilityKindWater
CC PURCHASED FROM CO0135292Consecutive connection (purchased)Surface water · from FT COLLINS LOVELAND WD

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 LOVELAND WD.

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 1 health-based violation appears on the federal record historically. The history is below.

EPA's own summary: violations in 0 of the last 12 quarters.

What happened

All 1 violation record on file, grouped into the 1 distinct thing EPA's codes describe. Dates are the compliance period the violation is filed against.

OCCT/SOWT Study/Recommendation — Lead and Copper Rule health-based
A required treatment step was not carried out or not proved. 1 record, 2006-07-01.
Rule: Lead and Copper Rule -- corrosion of household plumbing.
Every violation record, as filed (1 of 1)
Compliance periodWhatAboutKindStatusMeasured
2006-07-01 OCCT/SOWT Study/Recommendation Lead and Copper Rule health-based returned to compliance (2008-08-26)

What the regulator did about it

32 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
2020-12-15 St Compliance achieved state
2020-10-29 St Boil Water Order state
2020-10-25 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2019-11-20 St Compliance achieved state
2019-10-04 St Compliance achieved state
2019-10-01 St Compliance achieved state
2019-09-27 St Compliance achieved state
2019-09-24 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2019-08-08 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2019-08-08 St Public Notif requested state
2019-08-08 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2019-08-08 St Public Notif requested state
2019-08-07 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2019-04-01 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2019-04-01 St Public Notif requested state
2019-01-04 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2019-01-04 St Public Notif requested state
2018-11-14 St Public Notif received state
2018-09-14 St Compliance achieved state
2018-04-18 St Violation/Reminder Notice state

20 most recent of 32; the rest are on the ECHO report.

Lead and copper

The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.015 mg/L (sampling period ending 2025-12-31) against an action level of 0.015 mg/L, below it. 15 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 2026-10-09 · 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 Fort Collins, Colorado?

Spring Canyon Water & Sanitation District is the public water system serving 2,320 people in Larimer County, from purchased surface water. Its EPA public water system id is CO0135721.

Where does Spring Canyon Water & Sanitation District get its water?

Spring Canyon Water & Sanitation District reports purchased surface water as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as CC PURCHASED FROM CO0135292.

Does Spring Canyon Water & Sanitation District have any drinking water violations?

EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for Spring Canyon Water & Sanitation District at the last monthly fetch. Older and non-health-based entries, if any, are listed on this page.

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 →