Hydrohistorian
Crestone Water System
Serves Crestone.
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 2 | Well | Groundwater |
| WELL 2 RA | Well | Groundwater |
| WELL 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.
DWR structures that name this system
Source Probable join · fetched 2026-11-06 · 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 2026-11-07 · 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 10 of the last 12 quarters. In violation for, in EPA's words: 2456=Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5); 2950=TTHM.
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.
Rule: Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule.
Every violation record, as filed (1 of 1)
| Compliance period | What | About | Kind | Status | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-01 | Treatment Technique No Certif. Operator | DBP Stage 1 | health-based | returned to compliance (2024-04-22) |
What the regulator did about it
17 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-21 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2025-10-21 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2025-10-21 | St Compliance achieved FTM DBP in 3Y2023-2025 (late reporting) RTC through samples collected 09/29/25 reported 10/14/25, per wiki SOX date is vio issuance date (lfra 10/22/25); |
state |
| 2024-06-26 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2024-06-06 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2024-05-02 | St Public Notif received PN and COD for OpCert violation received, COD received 4/30/24 and copy of PN received 5/2/24 (lfra 5/2/24) |
state |
| 2024-04-22 | St Compliance achieved Contact update with new ORC received (lfra 4/22/24) |
state |
| 2024-04-01 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2024-04-01 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2024-04-01 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2024-03-04 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2024-03-04 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2024-01-16 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2024-01-16 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2018-01-18 | St Compliance achieved Cert of delivery and sample copy of notice submitted 1/18/2018. hpo |
state |
| 2018-01-04 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2018-01-04 | St Public Notif requested | state |
Lead and copper
The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.001 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 2026-10-09 · 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).
Common questions
Who provides drinking water in Crestone, Colorado?
Crestone Water System is the public water system serving 293 people in Saguache County, from groundwater. Its EPA public water system id is CO0155188.
Where does Crestone Water System get its water?
Crestone Water System reports groundwater as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as WELL 2, WELL 2 RA, WELL 3.
Does Crestone Water System have any drinking water violations?
EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for Crestone Water System 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 Saguache County.
The record
EPA SDWIS federal reporting as of 2026-11-06; the compliance record above is EPA's own, fetched monthly, and the ECHO report carries the rest. Report a problem →