Hydrohistorian
Morrison Creek Metro District
Modelled boundary. EPA estimated this service area (Random Forest) rather than tracing a utility-supplied map; treat the edge as approximate. About 2 km².
Where the water comes from
| Facility | Kind | Water |
|---|---|---|
| WELL NO 1 | Well | Groundwater |
| WELL 2R | Well | Groundwater |
| WELL 10 | Well | Groundwater |
| WELL 13 | Well | Groundwater |
| WELL NO 8 | Well | Groundwater |
| WELL NO 2 | Well | Groundwater |
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 2026-09-09 · 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 ↗
No open violation and no health-based violation on EPA's federal record for this system at the last monthly fetch. That is a record of reported compliance, not a test result: SDWIS carries violations, not routine sample values.
EPA's own summary: violations in 2 of the last 12 quarters. In violation for, in EPA's words: 1005=Arsenic; 1010=Barium; 1015=Cadmium; 1020=Chromium; 1035=Mercury; 1036=Nickel; 1045=Selenium; 1074=Antimony, Total; 1075=Beryllium, Total; 1085=Thallium, Total; 4000=Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U; 4010=Combined Radium (-226 and -228).
No health-based or open violation on the federal record for this system.
What the regulator did about it
18 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-16 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2025-10-16 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2025-10-16 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2025-10-16 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2025-10-13 | St Compliance achieved Q3 2025 combined radium (4010) and gross alpha (4000) samples both collected on 9/8/2025 at 013, which is on-time for Q3, but results were reported late by lab. 03 violation issued and immediately RTC with late reporting from colorado analytical on 10/13/2025, SOXed with lab reporting date -STF 10/16/2025 |
state |
| 2025-05-28 | St Compliance achieved IOC samples collected 4/28 and 5/28/2025 for Q2 2025 compliance with initial monitoring for new source & associated EP at 013, reported on time. Soxed with most recent Q2 ioc sample collection date -STF 7/18/2025 |
state |
| 2025-04-30 | St Public Notif received Tier 3 PN for Q1 IOC M&R vio included with 2025 CCR distributed 4/30/2025, included on COD, materials submitted to portal 6/17/2025 -STF 6/17/2025 |
state |
| 2025-04-14 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2025-04-14 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2021-05-06 | St Public Notif received System RTCd summited T3 PN. AS: |
state |
| 2021-03-31 | St Compliance achieved System RTCd with TC samples. AS |
state |
| 2021-03-29 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2021-03-29 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2021-03-29 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2021-03-29 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2020-08-29 | St Compliance achieved System RTCd with sample in correct month. AS |
state |
| 2019-10-22 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2019-10-22 | St Public Notif requested | state |
Lead and copper
The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.0007 mg/L (sampling period ending 2025-12-31) against an action level of 0.015 mg/L, below it. 8 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 Oak Creek, Colorado?
Morrison Creek Metro District is the public water system serving 800 people in Routt County, from groundwater. Its EPA public water system id is CO0154518.
Where does Morrison Creek Metro District get its water?
Morrison Creek Metro District reports groundwater as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as WELL NO 1, WELL 2R, WELL 10, WELL 13.
Does Morrison Creek Metro District have any drinking water violations?
EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for Morrison Creek Metro District at the last monthly fetch. Older and non-health-based entries, if any, are listed on this page.
Every provider in Routt 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 →