Hydrohistorian
Snowmass Village Water & Sanitation District
Serves Snowmass Village.
Modelled boundary. EPA estimated this service area (Random Forest) rather than tracing a utility-supplied map; treat the edge as approximate. About 23 km².
Where the water comes from
| Facility | Kind | Water |
|---|---|---|
| ZIEGLER RESERVOIR | Intake | Surface water |
| WEST FORK BRUSH CREEK | Intake | Surface water |
| EAST SNOWMASS CREEK | Intake | Surface water |
| EAST SNOWMASS CREEK SPRINGS | Intake | Surface water |
| SNOWMASS CREEK | Intake | 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.
Wholesale connections
Sells water to 1 system: BRUSH CREEK WD.
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
3 structures on DWR's record 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNOWMASS CREEK 3802074 | SG | SNOWMASS CREEK | Roaring Fork River Basin | intake name: SNOWMASS CREEK |
| SNOWMASS CREEK PIPELINE 3801442 | 7 | SNOWMASS CREEK | Roaring Fork River Basin | intake name: SNOWMASS CREEK |
| WEST FORK BRUSH CR PL 3801393 | 7 | BRUSH CREEK | Roaring Fork River Basin | intake name: WEST FORK BRUSH CREEK |
Compliance record
Source Register of another agency · fetched 2026-09-09 · verify at EPA ECHO ↗
3 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 12 of the last 12 quarters, significant non-compliance in 1. In violation for, in EPA's words: 0200=Surface Water Treatment Rule; 5000=Lead and Copper Rule; 7000=Consumer Confidence Rule; 7500=Public Notice. Currently: 5000=Lead and Copper Rule; 7000=Consumer Confidence Rule; 7500=Public Notice.
What happened
All 4 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: Lead and Copper Rule -- corrosion of household plumbing.
Rule: Public Notice Rule -- telling customers about a problem.
Rule: Surface Water Treatment Rule -- filtration and disinfection.
Every violation record, as filed (4 of 4)
| Compliance period | What | About | Kind | Status | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-01 | Follow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/R | Lead and Copper Rule | monitoring and reporting | open | |
| 2024-10-01 | Follow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/R | Lead and Copper Rule | monitoring and reporting | open | |
| 2024-07-01 – 2024-07-31 | Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR) | SWTR | health-based | returned to compliance (2024-09-04) | |
| 2023-04-10 | PN Violation without NPDWR Violation | Public Notice | other | open |
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.
| Date | Action | By |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-09 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2026-01-19 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2026-01-19 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2026-01-07 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2025-10-28 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2025-10-28 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2025-07-24 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2025-07-24 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2024-10-15 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2024-10-15 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2024-09-12 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2024-09-11 | St Public Notif received | state |
| 2024-09-11 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2024-09-10 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2024-09-04 | St Compliance achieved System submitted August 2024 MOR without any M&R or TT violations lmf 9/10/2024 |
state |
| 2024-08-09 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2024-08-09 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2023-04-21 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2023-01-20 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2022-12-21 | St Compliance achieved | state |
20 most recent of 26; the rest are on the ECHO report.
Lead and copper
The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.0 mg/L (sampling period ending 2025-12-31) against an action level of 0.015 mg/L, below it. 14 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 ↗
4 samples, 120 results, 2025-01-22 to 2025-10-20. No PFAS was detected at the reporting limits; lithium was not detected.
| Contaminant | Results | Detected | Highest, µg/L | Reporting limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HFPO-DA | 4 | 0 | < 0.005 | 0.005 |
| PFHxS | 4 | 0 | < 0.003 | 0.003 |
| PFNA | 4 | 0 | < 0.004 | 0.004 |
| PFOA | 4 | 0 | < 0.004 | 0.004 |
| PFOS | 4 | 0 | < 0.004 | 0.004 |
| lithium | 4 | 0 | < 9.0 | 9.0 |
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 Snowmass Village, Colorado?
Snowmass Village Water & Sanitation District is the public water system serving 6,353 people in Pitkin County, from surface water. Its EPA public water system id is CO0149717.
Where does Snowmass Village Water & Sanitation District get its water?
Snowmass Village Water & Sanitation District reports surface water as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as ZIEGLER RESERVOIR, WEST FORK BRUSH CREEK, EAST SNOWMASS CREEK, EAST SNOWMASS CREEK SPRINGS.
Does Snowmass Village Water & Sanitation District have any drinking water violations?
EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for Snowmass Village Water & Sanitation District 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 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 →