Hydrohistorian
Town of Windsor
Serves Windsor.
Its service area also reaches Big Thompson River (3.0%).
Boundary traced from IRE. About 73 km².
Where the water comes from
| Facility | Kind | Water |
|---|---|---|
| PURCHASED NORTH WELD COUNTY WD 162553 | Consecutive connection (purchased) | Surface water · from NORTH WELD COUNTY WD |
| PURCHASED CITY OF GREELEY 162321 | Consecutive connection (purchased) | Surface water · from GREELEY CITY OF |
| PURCHASED FT COLLINS-LOVELAND WD 135292 | Consecutive connection (purchased) | Surface water · from FT COLLINS LOVELAND 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 NORTH WELD COUNTY WD, GREELEY CITY OF, FT COLLINS LOVELAND WD.
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 1 of the last 12 quarters.
No health-based or open violation on the federal record for this system.
What the regulator did about it
7 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-04-27 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2023-02-01 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2023-01-27 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2023-01-20 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2022-12-09 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2022-12-09 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2021-01-15 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
Lead and copper
The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.0058 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 2026-09-09 · verify at EPA UCMR occurrence data ↗
25 samples, 360 results, 2023-08-07 to 2024-06-24. No PFAS was detected at the reporting limits; lithium was not detected.
| Contaminant | Results | Detected | Highest, µg/L | Reporting limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HFPO-DA | 12 | 0 | < 0.005 | 0.005 |
| PFHxS | 12 | 0 | < 0.003 | 0.003 |
| PFNA | 12 | 0 | < 0.004 | 0.004 |
| PFOA | 12 | 0 | < 0.004 | 0.004 |
| PFOS | 12 | 0 | < 0.004 | 0.004 |
| lithium | 12 | 0 | < 9.0 | 9.0 |
Rows shown: every detected contaminant plus the regulated PFAS and lithium; the rest were below their reporting limits. These are UCMR monitoring samples, not compliance samples. EPA's April 2024 rule set 4.0 ng/L (0.004 µg/L) for PFOA and PFOS, the same as UCMR 5's reporting limit, so any detection of either is at or above it; the rule's compliance date and its other limits have been under revision since 2025 and are not applied here. State PFAS sampling is on CDPHE's pages ↗.
Common questions
Who provides drinking water in Windsor, Colorado?
The Town of Windsor is the public water system serving 23,500 people in Weld County, from purchased surface water. Its EPA public water system id is CO0162843.
Where does the Town of Windsor get its water?
The Town of Windsor reports purchased surface water as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as PURCHASED NORTH WELD COUNTY WD 162553, PURCHASED CITY OF GREELEY 162321, PURCHASED FT COLLINS-LOVELAND WD 135292.
Does the Town of Windsor have any drinking water violations?
EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for the Town of Windsor 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 2026-09-08; the compliance record above is EPA's own, fetched monthly, and the ECHO report carries the rest. Report a problem →