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Brush Creek Water District

Brush Creek Water District is the public water system serving 516 people in Pitkin County, from purchased surface water. It buys water from Snowmass Village Water & Sanitation District. EPA modelled this service area rather than tracing it from a utility map, so treat the edge as approximate.
Community system · EPA id CO0149155 · filed with EPA as “BRUSH CREEK WD”
People served
516
Service connections
129
Primary source
Purchased surface water
Owner
Local government
Counties served
Pitkin
Water district

Modelled boundary. EPA estimated this service area (Random Forest) rather than tracing a utility-supplied map; treat the edge as approximate. About 6 km².

Where the water comes from

FacilityKindWater
PURCHASED FROM SNOWMASS W&S CO0149717Consecutive connection (purchased)Surface water · from SNOWMASS VILLAGE WSD

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 SNOWMASS VILLAGE WSD.

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 0 of the last 12 quarters.

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.

Treatment Technique No Certif. Operator — DBP Stage 1 health-based
A required treatment step was not carried out or not proved. 1 record, 2020-08-01.
Rule: Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule.
Every violation record, as filed (1 of 1)
Compliance periodWhatAboutKindStatusMeasured
2020-08-01 Treatment Technique No Certif. Operator DBP Stage 1 health-based returned to compliance (2020-08-13)

What the regulator did about it

26 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.

DateActionBy
2020-09-04 St Public Notif received state
2020-08-13 St Compliance achieved
System hired a new ORC lmf 9/7/2020
state
2020-08-07 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2020-08-07 St Public Notif requested state
2019-11-06 St Compliance achieved
Returning to compliance, system completed the 2019 lead consumer notice lmf 11/6/2019
state
2019-01-14 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2019-01-14 St Public Notif requested state
2018-02-22 St Compliance achieved state
2017-12-05 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2017-12-05 St Public Notif requested state
2017-12-05 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2017-12-05 St Public Notif requested state
2016-09-01 St Compliance achieved
System took required routine TTHM and HAA5 samples in 2016. hpo 10/13/2016
state
2016-07-08 St Compliance achieved state
2016-06-06 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2016-06-06 St Public Notif requested state
2016-06-06 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2016-06-06 St Public Notif requested state
2016-05-04 St Compliance achieved
RTC with March 2016 sample
state
2016-04-07 St Violation/Reminder Notice state

20 most recent of 26; the rest are on the ECHO report.

Lead and copper

The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.0011 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 Aspen, Colorado?

Brush Creek Water District is the public water system serving 516 people in Pitkin County, from purchased surface water. Its EPA public water system id is CO0149155.

Where does Brush Creek Water District get its water?

Brush Creek Water District reports purchased surface water as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as PURCHASED FROM SNOWMASS W&S CO0149717.

Does Brush Creek Water District have any drinking water violations?

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

Every provider in Pitkin 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 →