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Town of Arriba

The Town of Arriba is the public water system serving 216 people in Lincoln County, from groundwater. EPA modelled this service area rather than tracing it from a utility map, so treat the edge as approximate.
Community system · EPA id CO0137001 · filed with EPA as “ARRIBA TOWN OF”

Serves Arriba.

People served
216
Service connections
159
Primary source
Groundwater
Owner
Local government
Counties served
Lincoln
Water 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

FacilityKindWater
NORTH WELL IN TOWNWellGroundwater
SOUTH WELL IN TOWNWellGroundwater
NORTH WELL OUT OF TOWNWellGroundwater
SOUTH WELL OUT OF TOWNWellGroundwater

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 2026-10-06 · 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 ↗

1 violation open now, none health-based. These are monitoring, reporting or notice requirements — a sample not taken, or a result not filed on time. They are real obligations, but they are not a finding about the water itself.

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.

Violation code 4H monitoring and reporting 1 open
A required report was not filed on time. 1 record, 2026-07-02.
EPA violation code 4H, contaminant 5200 — not in the code table this build carries.
Every violation record, as filed (1 of 1)
Compliance periodWhatAboutKindStatusMeasured
2026-07-02 code 4H monitoring and reporting open

What the regulator did about it

5 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
2026-07-22 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2026-07-22 St Public Notif requested state
2016-08-15 St Compliance achieved
reported CCR and COD late on 8/15/16 met.
state
2016-08-09 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2016-08-09 St Public Notif requested state

Lead and copper

The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.0 mg/L (sampling period ending 2026-06-30) against an action level of 0.015 mg/L, below it. 9 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 ↗

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).

What changed recently

Differences EPA's monthly federal record showed against the month before. A date in brackets is EPA's own; otherwise it is when this site first saw the change.

  • Enforcement action: St Violation/Reminder Notice (2026-07-22)
  • Enforcement action: St Public Notif requested (2026-07-22)
  • New violation (2026-07-02)

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Common questions

Who provides drinking water in Arriba, Colorado?

The Town of Arriba is the public water system serving 216 people in Lincoln County, from groundwater. Its EPA public water system id is CO0137001.

Where does the Town of Arriba get its water?

The Town of Arriba reports groundwater as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as NORTH WELL IN TOWN, SOUTH WELL IN TOWN, NORTH WELL OUT OF TOWN, SOUTH WELL OUT OF TOWN.

Does the Town of Arriba have any drinking water violations?

EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for the Town of Arriba 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 Lincoln 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 →