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Bents Fort Water Company

Bents Fort Water Company is the public water system serving 900 people in Otero County, from purchased groundwater. It buys water from City of La Junta. EPA has no service-area boundary on file for this system, so it cannot be drawn on a map.

Community system · EPA id CO0145060 · filed with EPA as “BENTS FORT WC”

People served

900

Service connections

360

Primary source

Purchased groundwater

Owner

Private

Counties served

Otero

Water district

no boundary on file

Where the water comes from

Facility	Kind	Water
PURCHASED WATER FROM CITY OF LAJUNTA	Consecutive connection (purchased)	Groundwater · from LA JUNTA CITY OF

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 LA JUNTA CITY OF.

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 ↗

2 violations 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 9 of the last 12 quarters. In violation for, in EPA's words: 2456=Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5); 2950=TTHM; 5000=Lead and Copper Rule; 7000=Consumer Confidence Rule. Currently: 5000=Lead and Copper Rule; 7000=Consumer Confidence Rule.

What happened

All 2 violation records on file, grouped into the 2 distinct things EPA's codes describe. Dates are the compliance period the violation is filed against.

CCR Complete Failure to Report — Consumer Confidence Rule other 1 open

A requirement other than a limit, a sample or a notice was not met. 1 record, 2025-07-01.
Rule: Consumer Confidence Report -- the annual report to customers.

Lead Consumer Notice — Lead and Copper Rule monitoring and reporting 1 open

A required sample was not taken, or the result was not reported on time. 1 record, 2025-01-01.
Rule: Lead and Copper Rule -- corrosion of household plumbing.

Every violation record, as filed (2 of 2)

Compliance period	What	About	Kind	Status	Measured
2025-07-01	CCR Complete Failure to Report	Consumer Confidence Rule	other	open
2025-01-01	Lead Consumer Notice	Lead and Copper Rule	monitoring and reporting	open

What the regulator did about it

15 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
2025-07-30	St Violation/Reminder Notice	state
2025-07-30	St Public Notif requested	state
2025-01-15	St Violation/Reminder Notice	state
2025-01-15	St Public Notif requested	state
2023-10-19	St Violation/Reminder Notice	state
2023-10-19	St Public Notif requested	state
2023-10-13	St Compliance achieved	state
2020-07-28	St Violation/Reminder Notice	state
2020-07-28	St Public Notif requested	state
2020-07-28	St Violation/Reminder Notice	state
2020-07-28	St Public Notif requested	state
2020-07-06	St Compliance achieved sampled in next monitoring period	state
2020-06-29	St Compliance achieved	state
2020-01-08	St Violation/Reminder Notice	state
2019-09-05	St Violation/Reminder Notice	state

Lead and copper

The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.0006 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 ↗

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 La Junta, Colorado?

Bents Fort Water Company is the public water system serving 900 people in Otero County, from purchased groundwater. Its EPA public water system id is CO0145060.

Where does Bents Fort Water Company get its water?

Bents Fort Water Company reports purchased groundwater as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as PURCHASED WATER FROM CITY OF LAJUNTA.

Does Bents Fort Water Company have any drinking water violations?

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

Every provider in Otero 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 →

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