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Town of Gilcrest

The Town of Gilcrest is the public water system serving 1,150 people in Weld County, from purchased surface water. It buys water from Central Weld County Water District. EPA modelled this service area rather than tracing it from a utility map, so treat the edge as approximate.
Community system · EPA id CO0162310 · filed with EPA as “GILCREST TOWN OF”

Serves Gilcrest.

People served
1,150
Service connections
350
Primary source
Purchased surface water
Owner
Local government
Counties served
Weld
Water 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

FacilityKindWater
PURCHASED FROM CENTRL WELD 162122 SWConsecutive connection (purchased)Surface water · from CENTRAL WELD CNTY WD

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 CENTRAL WELD CNTY WD.

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

5 structures on DWR's record name this system as their contact (5). 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.

StructureTypeSourceDistrictMatched on
GILCREST AUG 0202560 AUGMENTATION/REPLACEMENT PLAN UNDEFINED South Platte: Denver Gage to Greeley contact: TOWN OF GILCREST
GILCREST AUG IMPACT REACH 0202276 REACH SOUTH PLATTE RIVER South Platte: Denver Gage to Greeley contact: TOWN OF GILCREST
GILCREST RESERVOIR 0203388 RESERVOIR SOUTH PLATTE RIVER South Platte: Denver Gage to Greeley contact: GILCREST RESERVOIR, LLC (LEMBKE, ROBERT)
GILCREST WELL 45115 0209984 WELL GROUNDWATER: SOUTH PLATTE RIVER South Platte: Denver Gage to Greeley contact: TOWN OF GILCREST
GILCREST/BROWN WELL 14967-R 0209985 WELL GROUNDWATER: SOUTH PLATTE RIVER South Platte: Denver Gage to Greeley contact: TOWN OF GILCREST

Compliance record

Source Register of another agency · fetched 2026-10-07 · 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 0 of the last 12 quarters.

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.

Public Education — Lead and Copper Rule health-based
A required treatment step was not carried out or not proved. 1 record, 1999-01-01.
Rule: Lead and Copper Rule -- corrosion of household plumbing.
Every violation record, as filed (1 of 1)
Compliance periodWhatAboutKindStatusMeasured
1999-01-01 Public Education Lead and Copper Rule health-based returned to compliance (1999-12-21)

What the regulator did about it

3 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.

DateActionBy
2018-02-08 St Compliance achieved state
2018-01-12 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2018-01-12 St Public Notif requested state

Lead and copper

The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.0014 mg/L (sampling period ending 2025-12-31) against an action level of 0.015 mg/L, below it. 7 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 Gilcrest, Colorado?

The Town of Gilcrest is the public water system serving 1,150 people in Weld County, from purchased surface water. Its EPA public water system id is CO0162310.

Where does the Town of Gilcrest get its water?

The Town of Gilcrest reports purchased surface water as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as PURCHASED FROM CENTRL WELD 162122 SW.

Does the Town of Gilcrest have any drinking water violations?

EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for the Town of Gilcrest 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 Weld County.

The record

EPA SDWIS federal reporting as of 2026-10-06; the compliance record above is EPA's own, fetched monthly, and the ECHO report carries the rest. Report a problem →