Colorado City Metropolitan District☆

Where the water comes from

Facility	Kind	Water
BECKWITH RESERVIOR	Intake	Surface water
COLD SPRING	Well	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 2026-10-06 · matched on DWR's recorded contact or an EPA intake name; verify on the dossier

1 structure on DWR's record 1 matches 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.

Compliance record

Source Register of another agency · fetched 2026-10-07 · verify at EPA ECHO ↗

EPA's own summary: violations in 12 of the last 12 quarters. In violation for, in EPA's words: 0200=Surface Water Treatment Rule; 0300=Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule; 0700=Groundwater Rule; 1008=Chlorine dioxide; 1009=Chlorite; 2031=Dalapon; 2456=Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5); 2950=TTHM; 5000=Lead and Copper Rule; 7500=Public Notice. Currently: 0700=Groundwater Rule; 5000=Lead and Copper Rule; 7500=Public Notice.

What happened

All 36 violation records on file, grouped into the 11 distinct things EPA's codes describe. Dates are the compliance period the violation is filed against.

Every violation record, as filed (12 of 36)

Compliance period	What	About	Kind	Status	Measured
2026-07-01	CCR Complete Failure to Report	Consumer Confidence Rule	other	open
2026-05-31	PN Violation for NPDWR Violation	Public Notice	other	open
2026-03-01	PN Violation for NPDWR Violation	Public Notice	other	open
2026-01-01	Follow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/R	Lead and Copper Rule	monitoring and reporting	open
2025-12-01	PN Violation for NPDWR Violation	Public Notice	other	open
2025-11-01 – 2025-11-30	Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)	SWTR	health-based	returned to compliance (2026-02-10)
2025-10-01 – 2025-10-31	Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)	SWTR	health-based	returned to compliance (2026-02-10)
2023-09-04	Failure To Address Deficiency	Groundwater Rule	health-based	open
2023-09-04	Failure To Address Deficiency	Groundwater Rule	health-based	open
2023-04-01 – 2023-06-30	MCL, Average	Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)	health-based	returned to compliance (2023-08-31)	0.064 MG/L (limit 0.06)
2023-01-01 – 2023-03-31	MCL, Average	Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)	health-based	returned to compliance (2023-08-31)	0.063 MG/L (limit 0.06)
2022-10-01 – 2022-12-31	MCL, Average	Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)	health-based	returned to compliance (2023-08-31)	0.072 MG/L (limit 0.06)

The remaining 24 are on the ECHO report.

What the regulator did about it

215 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 215; the rest are on the ECHO report.

Lead and copper

The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.001 mg/L (sampling period ending 2026-06-30) against an action level of 0.015 mg/L, below it. 11 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 2026-10-09 · 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).

What changed recently

Differences EPA's monthly federal record showed against the month before. A date in brackets is EPA's own; otherwise it is when this site first saw the change.

• Enforcement action: St Violation/Reminder Notice (2026-07-16)
• Enforcement action: St Public Notif requested (2026-07-16)
• Enforcement action: St Violation/Reminder Notice (2026-07-09)
• New violation: CCR Complete Failure to Report — Consumer Confidence Rule (2026-07-01)
• Enforcement action: St Violation/Reminder Notice (2026-06-11)
• Enforcement action: St Public Notif requested (2026-06-11)
• Enforcement action: St Violation/Reminder Notice (2026-06-11)
• Enforcement action: St Public Notif requested (2026-06-11)
• New violation: PN Violation for NPDWR Violation — Public Notice (2026-05-31)

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Common questions

Who provides drinking water in Colorado City, Colorado?

Colorado City Metropolitan District is the public water system serving 2,755 people in Pueblo County, from surface water. Its EPA public water system id is CO0151200.

Where does Colorado City Metropolitan District get its water?

Colorado City Metropolitan District reports surface water as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as BECKWITH RESERVIOR, COLD SPRING.

Does Colorado City Metropolitan District have any drinking water violations?

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