Hydrohistorian
Santa Fe Trail Ranch Metropolitan District
Serves Starkville.
Modelled boundary. EPA estimated this service area (Random Forest) rather than tracing a utility-supplied map; treat the edge as approximate. About 0 km².
Where the water comes from
| Facility | Kind | Water |
|---|---|---|
| PURCHASED SW FROM TRINIDAD CO0136800 | Consecutive connection (purchased) | Surface water · from TRINIDAD 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 TRINIDAD CITY OF.
DWR structures that name this system
Source Probable join · fetched 2026-11-06 · 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 2026-11-07 · 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 2 of the last 12 quarters. In violation for, in EPA's words: 0200=Surface Water Treatment Rule; 0999=Chlorine.
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.
EPA violation code 2E, contaminant 5200 — not in the code table this build carries.
Every violation record, as filed (1 of 1)
| Compliance period | What | About | Kind | Status | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-17 | code 2E | health-based | returned to compliance (2024-11-07) |
What the regulator did about it
28 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-01 | St Public Notif received PN and COD received. MM 10/8/2025 |
state |
| 2025-09-24 | St Compliance achieved Changing violation from 3A to 4B and SOXing; the result was received on 9/24/2025. MM 9/26/2025 |
state |
| 2025-09-19 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2025-09-19 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2025-09-19 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2025-09-19 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2025-09-19 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2025-09-19 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2024-12-17 | St Public Notif received | state |
| 2024-12-17 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2024-12-17 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2024-11-07 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2024-11-07 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2024-11-07 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2024-11-07 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2024-11-07 | St Compliance achieved SLI form received on 11/5/2024. MM 11/7/2024 |
state |
| 2022-01-11 | St Compliance achieved PWS submitted LCRN with consumer notice result. FCL 1/11/2022 |
state |
| 2022-01-04 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2022-01-04 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2018-08-02 | St Compliance achieved sampled on 08/02/2018 |
state |
20 most recent of 28; the rest are on the ECHO report.
Lead and copper
The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.0009 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 2026-11-09 · 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 Trinidad, Colorado?
Santa Fe Trail Ranch Metropolitan District is the public water system serving 360 people in Las Animas County, from purchased surface water. Its EPA public water system id is CO0136700.
Where does Santa Fe Trail Ranch Metropolitan District get its water?
Santa Fe Trail Ranch Metropolitan District reports purchased surface water as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as PURCHASED SW FROM TRINIDAD CO0136800.
Does Santa Fe Trail Ranch Metropolitan District have any drinking water violations?
EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for Santa Fe Trail Ranch Metropolitan 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 Las Animas County.
The record
EPA SDWIS federal reporting as of 2026-11-06; the compliance record above is EPA's own, fetched monthly, and the ECHO report carries the rest. Report a problem →