Hydrohistorian
Town of Palisade
Serves Palisade.
Boundary traced from WSP. About 11 km².
Where the water comes from
| Facility | Kind | Water |
|---|---|---|
| PURCHASED WATER FROM UTE CO0139791 | Consecutive connection (purchased) | Surface water · from UTE WCD |
| KRUZEN SPRING 1 | Spring | Groundwater under the influence of surface water |
| LOWER COTTONWOOD CREEK INTAKE | Intake | Surface water |
| LOWER RAPID CREEK INTAKE | Intake | Surface water |
| UPPER RAPID CREEK INTAKE | Intake | Surface water |
| RAPID CREEK SPRING 1 | Spring | Groundwater under the influence of surface water |
| MIDDLE COTTONWOOD CREEK INTAKE | Intake | Surface water |
| UPPER COTTONWOOD CREEK INTAKE | Intake | Surface water |
| COTTONWOOD SPRING 1 | Spring | Groundwater under the influence of surface water |
| MUD SPRING | Spring | Groundwater under the influence of surface water |
| CRYSTAL SPRING | Spring | Groundwater under the influence of surface water |
| MIDDLE RESERVOIR SPRING | Spring | Groundwater under the influence of surface water |
| PALISADE SPRING 1 | Spring | Groundwater under the influence of surface water |
| UPPER RAPID CREEK SPRING | Spring | Groundwater under the influence of surface water |
| UPPER RESERVOIR SPRING 1 | Spring | Groundwater under the influence of surface water |
| ROCK SPRINGS | Spring | Groundwater under the influence of surface water |
| RAPID CREEK SPRING 2 | Spring | Groundwater under the influence of surface water |
| RAPID CREEK SPRING 3 | Spring | Groundwater under the influence of surface water |
| RAPID CREEK SPRING 4 | Spring | Groundwater under the influence of surface water |
| RAPID CREEK SPRING 5 | Spring | Groundwater under the influence of surface water |
| RAPID CREEK SPRING 6 | Spring | Groundwater under the influence of surface water |
| COTTONWOOD SPRING 2 | Spring | Groundwater under the influence of surface water |
| PALISADE SPRING 2 | Spring | Groundwater under the influence of surface water |
| PALISADE SPRING 3 | Spring | Groundwater under the influence of surface water |
| KRUZEN SPRING 2 | Spring | Groundwater under the influence of surface water |
| KRUZEN SPRING 3 | Spring | Groundwater under the influence of surface water |
| UPPER RESERVOIR SPRING 2 | Spring | Groundwater under the influence of surface water |
| BIG SPRING | Spring | Groundwater under the influence of surface water |
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
25 structures on DWR's record 25 match an EPA intake by name. A match says who DWR lists, not who owns the water: a ditch company can own the headgate while the system owns shares, and a consultant can be the contact. The dossier holds the decree.
| Structure | Type | Source | District | Matched on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BIG SPRING 7205277 | 4 | RAPID CREEK | Lower Colorado River | intake name: BIG SPRING |
| COTTONWOOD SPRING 7205474 | 4 | COLORADO RIVER | Lower Colorado River | intake name: COTTONWOOD SPRING 1 |
| COTTONWOOD SPRING NO 1 7205278 | 4 | RAPID CREEK | Lower Colorado River | intake name: COTTONWOOD SPRING 1 |
| COTTONWOOD SPRING NO 2 7205279 | 4 | RAPID CREEK | Lower Colorado River | intake name: COTTONWOOD SPRING 1 |
| CRYSTAL SPRING 7205265 | 4 | RAPID CREEK | Lower Colorado River | intake name: CRYSTAL SPRING |
| LOWER RAPID CREEK INTAKE 7201555 | 7 | RAPID CREEK | Lower Colorado River | intake name: LOWER RAPID CREEK INTAKE |
| MUD SPRING 7205276 | 4 | RAPID CREEK | Lower Colorado River | intake name: MUD SPRING |
| PALISADE SPRING NO 1 7205258 | 4 | RAPID CREEK | Lower Colorado River | intake name: PALISADE SPRING 1 |
| PALISADE SPRING NO 2 7205259 | 4 | RAPID CREEK | Lower Colorado River | intake name: PALISADE SPRING 1 |
| PALISADE SPRING NO 3 7205260 | 4 | RAPID CREEK | Lower Colorado River | intake name: PALISADE SPRING 1 |
| PALISADE SPRING NO 4 7205261 | 4 | RAPID CREEK | Lower Colorado River | intake name: PALISADE SPRING 1 |
| PALISADE SPRING NO 5 7205262 | 4 | RAPID CREEK | Lower Colorado River | intake name: PALISADE SPRING 1 |
| PALISADE SPRING NO 6 7205263 | 4 | RAPID CREEK | Lower Colorado River | intake name: PALISADE SPRING 1 |
| RAPID CREEK SPRING NO 1 7201554 | 4 | RAPID CREEK | Lower Colorado River | intake name: RAPID CREEK SPRING 1 |
| RAPID CREEK SPRING NO 2 7205266 | 4 | RAPID CREEK | Lower Colorado River | intake name: RAPID CREEK SPRING 1 |
| RAPID CREEK SPRING NO 3 7205267 | 4 | RAPID CREEK | Lower Colorado River | intake name: RAPID CREEK SPRING 1 |
| RAPID CREEK SPRING NO 4 7205268 | 4 | RAPID CREEK | Lower Colorado River | intake name: RAPID CREEK SPRING 1 |
| RAPID CREEK SPRING NO 5 7205269 | 4 | RAPID CREEK | Lower Colorado River | intake name: RAPID CREEK SPRING 1 |
| RAPID CREEK SPRING NO 6 7205270 | 4 | RAPID CREEK | Lower Colorado River | intake name: RAPID CREEK SPRING 1 |
| UPPER RAPID CREEK INTAKE 7201557 | 7 | RAPID CREEK | Lower Colorado River | intake name: UPPER RAPID CREEK INTAKE |
| UPPER RAPID CREEK INTAKE NO 1 7201707 | 1 | RAPID CREEK | Lower Colorado River | intake name: UPPER RAPID CREEK INTAKE |
| UPPER RAPID CREEK SPRING 7205271 | 4 | RAPID CREEK | Lower Colorado River | intake name: UPPER RAPID CREEK SPRING |
| UPPER RESERVOIR SPRING 1 7205272 | 4 | RAPID CREEK | Lower Colorado River | intake name: UPPER RESERVOIR SPRING 1 |
| UPPER RESERVOIR SPRING 2 7205273 | 4 | RAPID CREEK | Lower Colorado River | intake name: UPPER RESERVOIR SPRING 1 |
| UPPER RESERVOIR SPRING 3 7205274 | 4 | RAPID CREEK | Lower Colorado River | intake name: UPPER RESERVOIR SPRING 1 |
Compliance record
Source Register of another agency · fetched 2026-09-09 · verify at EPA ECHO ↗
No open violation and no health-based violation on EPA's federal record for this system at the last monthly fetch. That is a record of reported compliance, not a test result: SDWIS carries violations, not routine sample values.
EPA's own summary: violations in 11 of the last 12 quarters. In violation for, in EPA's words: 2005=Endrin; 2010=BHC-GAMMA; 2015=Methoxychlor; 2020=Toxaphene; 2031=Dalapon; 2032=Diquat; 2033=Endothall; 2035=Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate; 2036=OXAMYL; 2037=Simazine; 2039=Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate; 2040=Picloram; 2041=Dinoseb; 2042=Hexachlorocyclopentadiene; 2043=Aldicarb sulfoxide; 2044=Aldicarb sulfone; 2046=Carbofuran; 2047=Aldicarb; 2050=Atrazine; 2051=LASSO; 2065=Heptachlor; 2067=Heptachlor epoxide; 2105=2,4-D; 2110=2,4,5-TP; 2274=HEXACHLOROBENZENE; 2306=Benzo(a)pyrene; 2326=Pentachlorophenol; 2383=Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB); 2931=1,2-DIBROMO-3-CHLOROPROPANE; 2946=ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE; 2959=Chlordane.
No health-based or open violation on the federal record for this system.
What the regulator did about it
16 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-06 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2026-02-06 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2023-02-07 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2023-02-02 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2023-01-06 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2023-01-06 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2023-01-02 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2022-12-01 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2022-12-01 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2022-12-01 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2022-12-01 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2022-05-10 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2022-05-10 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2020-12-14 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2020-09-01 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2020-09-01 | St Public Notif requested | state |
Lead and copper
The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.0003 mg/L (sampling period ending 2025-12-31) against an action level of 0.015 mg/L, below it. 8 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 Palisade, Colorado?
The Town of Palisade is the public water system serving 3,060 people in Mesa County, from surface water. Its EPA public water system id is CO0139600.
Where does the Town of Palisade get its water?
The Town of Palisade reports surface water as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as PURCHASED WATER FROM UTE CO0139791, KRUZEN SPRING 1, LOWER COTTONWOOD CREEK INTAKE, LOWER RAPID CREEK INTAKE.
Does the Town of Palisade have any drinking water violations?
EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for the Town of Palisade 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 Mesa 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 →