Hydrohistorian
Steamboat II Metropolitan District
Modelled boundary. EPA estimated this service area (Random Forest) rather than tracing a utility-supplied map; treat the edge as approximate. About 1 km².
Where the water comes from
| Facility | Kind | Water |
|---|---|---|
| PURCHASED FROM CO0154725 | Consecutive connection (purchased) | Surface water · from STEAMBOAT SPRINGS CITY OF |
| WELL 1R | Well | Groundwater |
| WELL NO 2 | Well | Groundwater |
| WELL NO 3 | 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.
Wholesale connections
Buys water from STEAMBOAT SPRINGS 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 ↗
1 violation 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. In violation for, in EPA's words: 0200=Surface Water Treatment Rule; 0999=Chlorine; 2456=Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5); 2950=TTHM; 2982=Carbon tetrachloride; 7000=Consumer Confidence Rule; 7500=Public Notice; 8000=Revised Total Coliform Rule. Currently: 7000=Consumer Confidence Rule; 7500=Public Notice.
What happened
All 5 violation records on file, grouped into the 4 distinct things EPA's codes describe. Dates are the compliance period the violation is filed against.
Rule: Consumer Confidence Report -- the annual report to customers.
EPA violation code 2A, contaminant 8000 — not in the code table this build carries.
Rule: Groundwater Rule -- protecting wells from faecal contamination.
Rule: Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule.
Every violation record, as filed (5 of 5)
| Compliance period | What | About | Kind | Status | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-21 | code 2A | Revised Total Coliform Rule | health-based | returned to compliance (2024-02-21) | |
| 2023-02-17 | Failure To Address Deficiency | Groundwater Rule | health-based | returned to compliance (2024-03-19) | |
| 2023-02-17 | Failure To Address Deficiency | Groundwater Rule | health-based | returned to compliance (2024-01-09) | |
| 2021-04-01 – 2021-06-30 | MCL, Average | Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | health-based | returned to compliance (2022-01-04) | 0.062 MG/L (limit 0.06) |
| 1999-10-19 | CCR Complete Failure to Report | Consumer Confidence Rule | other | open | 0.0 (limit 0.0) |
What the regulator did about it
141 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-02 | St Compliance achieved Tier 2 PN for M611 and F325 violations identified during 11/21/2025 and COD certifying the notice was directly distributed 3/2/2026, materials submitted to portal 3/19/2026. Soxed with distribution date of overdue PN -STF 3/23/2026 |
state |
| 2026-02-18 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2025-07-17 | St Compliance achieved Sample collected 6/30/2025, on time for Q2 2025, RTC with late reporting of Q2 sample by lab on 7/16/2025. Soxed with day after reporting date (cannot sox same day) -STF 7/18/2025 |
state |
| 2025-07-16 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2025-07-16 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2024-08-12 | St Compliance achieved Q3 2024 DBP samples collected 8/12/2024 (both TTHM and HAA5) and reported on time -STF 11/4/2024 |
state |
| 2024-08-12 | St Compliance achieved RTC with carbon tetrachloride sample collected 8/12/2024 and reported on time for Q3 2024 data, SOXed with collection date of compliant carbon tetrachloride sample -STF 10/20/2025 |
state |
| 2024-07-17 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2024-07-17 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2024-07-17 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2024-07-17 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2024-07-17 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2024-07-17 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2024-05-30 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2024-05-30 | St Public Notif received | state |
| 2024-03-25 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2024-03-19 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2024-03-13 | St Compliance achieved Failure to do level 1 assessment PN and COD certifying 3/7/2024 distribution received via portal 3/13/2024 -STF 3/14/2024 |
state |
| 2024-03-13 | St Public Notif received | state |
| 2024-03-12 | St Compliance achieved | state |
20 most recent of 141; the rest are on the ECHO report.
Lead and copper
The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.0082 mg/L (sampling period ending 2025-12-31) against an action level of 0.015 mg/L, below it. 6 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 Steamboat Springs, Colorado?
Steamboat II Metropolitan District is the public water system serving 1,450 people in Routt County, from purchased surface water. Its EPA public water system id is CO0154724.
Where does Steamboat II Metropolitan District get its water?
Steamboat II Metropolitan District reports purchased surface water as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as PURCHASED FROM CO0154725, WELL 1R, WELL NO 2, WELL NO 3.
Does Steamboat II Metropolitan District have any drinking water violations?
EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for Steamboat II Metropolitan 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 →