Hydrohistorian
Town of Hugo
Serves Hugo.
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
| Facility | Kind | Water |
|---|---|---|
| EAST NO 1 WELL | Well | Groundwater |
| EAST NO 2 WELL | Well | Groundwater |
| WEST NO 7 WELL | Well | Groundwater |
| WEST NO 8 WELL | Well | Groundwater |
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
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 2026-09-09 · 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 4 of the last 12 quarters, significant non-compliance in 1. In violation for, in EPA's words: 1040=Nitrate.
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 (2025-03-11) |
What the regulator did about it
44 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-19 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2025-11-18 | St Compliance achieved RTC with IOC sample collected 11/18/2025 at facility id 001 and reported on-time for 1/1/2023-12/31/2025 MP. SOXed with collection date of next sample collected in accordance with the rule -STF 1/23/2026 |
state |
| 2025-03-11 | St Compliance achieved COD submitted 6/25/2024 and copy of CCR distributed to customers submitted via portal 3/11/2025. CCR activities for 2024 completed and violation RTC -STF 3/11/2025 |
state |
| 2025-03-11 | St Compliance achieved Detailed lead service line excel form completed with location markers for all service lines, including unknowns, and submitted via portal 3/11/2025. Second submission, previous excel file only had information and location markers for known non-lead service lines. Initial LSLI requirement now complete and violation RTC -STF 3/11/2025 |
state |
| 2025-01-29 | St Public Notif received | state |
| 2025-01-29 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2025-01-16 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2025-01-16 | 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 Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2024-11-07 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2024-07-11 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2024-07-11 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2023-07-25 | St Compliance achieved RTC with Q3 sample collected 7/25 |
state |
| 2023-07-19 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2023-07-19 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2023-01-20 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2023-01-20 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2023-01-20 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
20 most recent of 44; 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. 6 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 2026-09-09 · 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 Hugo, Colorado?
The Town of Hugo is the public water system serving 885 people in Lincoln County, from groundwater. Its EPA public water system id is CO0137010.
Where does the Town of Hugo get its water?
The Town of Hugo reports groundwater as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as EAST NO 1 WELL, EAST NO 2 WELL, WEST NO 7 WELL, WEST NO 8 WELL.
Does the Town of Hugo have any drinking water violations?
EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for the Town of Hugo 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 2026-09-08; the compliance record above is EPA's own, fetched monthly, and the ECHO report carries the rest. Report a problem →