Montezuma Water Company☆

Where the water comes from

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 MANCOS RURAL WATER COMPANY, DOVE CREEK TOWN OF.

Sells water to 4 systems: ELEGANT HILLS MHP, DOLORES TOWN OF, MONTEZUMA CNTY WD NO 1, VISTA VERDE VILLAGE.

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 ↗

EPA's own summary: violations in 7 of the last 12 quarters. In violation for, in EPA's words: 1008=Chlorine dioxide; 1009=Chlorite; 5000=Lead and Copper Rule. Currently: 5000=Lead and Copper Rule.

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.

What the regulator did about it

30 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.

20 most recent of 30; the rest are on the ECHO report.

Lead and copper

The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.0029 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 2026-09-09 · verify at EPA UCMR occurrence data ↗

5 samples, 120 results, 2024-09-03 to 2025-06-03. No PFAS was detected at the reporting limits; lithium was measured up to 29.1 µg/L (no federal limit).

Rows shown: every detected contaminant plus the regulated PFAS and lithium; the rest were below their reporting limits. These are UCMR monitoring samples, not compliance samples. EPA's April 2024 rule set 4.0 ng/L (0.004 µg/L) for PFOA and PFOS, the same as UCMR 5's reporting limit, so any detection of either is at or above it; the rule's compliance date and its other limits have been under revision since 2025 and are not applied here. State PFAS sampling is on CDPHE's pages ↗.

Common questions

Who provides drinking water in Dolores, Colorado?

Montezuma Water Company is the public water system serving 13,797 people in Montezuma County, from surface water. Its EPA public water system id is CO0142900.

Where does Montezuma Water Company get its water?

Montezuma Water Company reports surface water as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as INTERONNECT MANCOS RURAL WATER 142600, INTERONNECT DOVE CREEK 117300, MCPHEE RESERVOIR.

Does Montezuma Water Company have any drinking water violations?

EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for Montezuma Water Company at the last monthly fetch. Older and non-health-based entries, if any, are listed on this page.