Hydrohistorian
Karval Water Users Inc.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| WELL NO 1 | 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 3 health-based violations appear on the federal record historically. The history is below.
EPA's own summary: violations in 1 of the last 12 quarters. In violation for, in EPA's words: 0999=Chlorine.
What happened
All 3 violation records on file, grouped into the 3 distinct things EPA's codes describe. Dates are the compliance period the violation is filed against.
Rule: Nitrate and nitrite.
Rule: Nitrate and nitrite.
Rule: Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule.
Every violation record, as filed (3 of 3)
| Compliance period | What | About | Kind | Status | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-04-01 – 2019-06-30 | MCL, Single Sample | Nitrate | health-based | returned to compliance (2020-01-09) | 11.6 MG/L (limit 10.0) |
| 2019-01-01 – 2019-03-31 | MCL, Average | Nitrate | health-based | returned to compliance (2020-01-09) | 12.2 MG/L (limit 10.0) |
| 2016-12-23 | Treatment Technique No Certif. Operator | DBP Stage 1 | health-based | returned to compliance (2018-08-20) |
What the regulator did about it
29 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-18 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2023-12-18 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2023-12-18 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2023-12-18 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2023-12-15 | St Compliance achieved TC sample and residual reported late (12/15) |
state |
| 2023-04-28 | St Compliance achieved RTC with Q2 samples received 4/24/2023 -SKT 4/28/2023 |
state |
| 2023-04-19 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2023-04-19 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2021-07-09 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2021-07-09 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2021-07-09 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2020-01-09 | St Compliance achieved System on quarterly monitoring and had a high nitrate result in 1Q2019 and 2Q2019, 3Q2019 and 4Q2019 results came in below MCL of 10 mg/L (3Q2019 - 1.9 mg/L and 4Q2019 - 5.72 mg/L); therefore, SOXing this violation, jlm 1/9/2020. |
state |
| 2020-01-09 | St Compliance achieved System on quarterly monitoring and had a high nitrate result in 1Q2019 and 2Q2019, 3Q2019 and 4Q2019 results came in below MCL of 10 mg/L (3Q2019 - 1.9 mg/L and 4Q2019 - 5.72 mg/L); therefore, SOXing this violation, jlm 1/9/2020. |
state |
| 2020-01-09 | St Compliance achieved For this confirmation monitoring and reporting violation, system returned to compliance when they monitored and reported 3Q and 4Q2019's nitrate sample results; therefore, SOX'ing this violation, jlm 1/9/2020. |
state |
| 2019-08-14 | St Public Notif received | state |
| 2019-08-14 | St Compliance achieved System received high nitrate sample result on 6/25/19 and went ahead and performed PN prior to receiving the violation letter because he (Patrick Leonard) knew it was required, closing schedule, jlm 8/20/19. |
state |
| 2019-07-24 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2019-07-24 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2019-07-24 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2019-07-24 | St Public Notif requested | state |
20 most recent of 29; the rest are on the ECHO report.
Lead and copper
The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.0005 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 Karval, Colorado?
Karval Water Users Inc. is the public water system serving 102 people in Lincoln County, from groundwater. Its EPA public water system id is CO0137012.
Where does Karval Water Users Inc. get its water?
Karval Water Users Inc. reports groundwater as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as WELL NO 1.
Does Karval Water Users Inc. have any drinking water violations?
EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for Karval Water Users Inc. at the last monthly fetch. Older and non-health-based entries, if any, are listed on this page.
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 →