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Wattenberg Improvement Assoc

Wattenberg Improvement Assoc is the public water system serving 350 people in Weld County, from groundwater. EPA modelled this service area rather than tracing it from a utility map, so treat the edge as approximate.
Community system · EPA id CO0162833 · filed with EPA as “WATTENBERG IMPROVEMENT ASSOC”
People served
350
Service connections
100
Primary source
Groundwater
Owner
Private
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 0 km².

Where the water comes from

FacilityKindWater
NO 1 WELLWellGroundwater

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

3 structures on DWR's record name this system as their contact (3). 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
WATTENBERG AUG 0202547 AUGMENTATION/REPLACEMENT PLAN UNDEFINED South Platte: Denver Gage to Greeley contact: WATTENBERG IMPROVEMENT ASSOC (GARCIA, MIKE)
WATTENBERG IMPACT REACH 0202218 REACH SOUTH PLATTE RIVER South Platte: Denver Gage to Greeley contact: WATTENBERG IMPROVEMENT ASSOC (GALICIA, FRANK)
WATTENBERG W NO 16006-F 0208510 WELL GROUNDWATER: SOUTH PLATTE RIVER South Platte: Denver Gage to Greeley contact: WATTENBERG IMPROVEMENT ASSOC (GARCIA, MIKE)

Compliance record

Source Register of another agency · fetched 2026-09-09 · 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 9 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.

MCL, Average — Nitrate health-based
A measured contaminant level went over the federal limit. 1 record, 2015-06-01. Highest measured: 10.75 MG/L against a limit of 10.0.
Rule: Nitrate and nitrite.
Every violation record, as filed (1 of 1)
Compliance periodWhatAboutKindStatusMeasured
2015-06-01 – 2015-06-30 MCL, Average Nitrate health-based returned to compliance (2016-08-03) 10.75 MG/L (limit 10.0)

What the regulator did about it

14 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
2025-06-27 St Compliance achieved state
2025-05-22 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2025-02-21 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2025-01-29 St Compliance achieved state
2024-11-01 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2024-08-13 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2024-05-15 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2024-02-01 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2023-10-03 St Compliance achieved state
2023-08-18 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2023-05-11 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2020-11-20 St Compliance achieved state
2020-11-18 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2016-08-03 St Compliance achieved state

Lead and copper

The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.0 mg/L (sampling period ending 2024-06-30) against an action level of 0.015 mg/L, below it. 13 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 Fort Lupton, Colorado?

Wattenberg Improvement Assoc is the public water system serving 350 people in Weld County, from groundwater. Its EPA public water system id is CO0162833.

Where does Wattenberg Improvement Assoc get its water?

Wattenberg Improvement Assoc reports groundwater as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as NO 1 WELL.

Does Wattenberg Improvement Assoc have any drinking water violations?

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

Every provider in Weld 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 →