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City of Wray

The City of Wray is the public water system serving 2,342 people in Yuma 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 CO0163010 · filed with EPA as “WRAY CITY OF”

Serves Wray.

People served
2,342
Service connections
1,173
Primary source
Groundwater
Owner
Local government
Counties served
Yuma
Water district

Its service area also reaches Republican River (50.0%).

Modelled boundary. EPA estimated this service area (Random Forest) rather than tracing a utility-supplied map; treat the edge as approximate. About 11 km².

Where the water comes from

FacilityKindWater
WELL 7WellGroundwater
WELL 8WellGroundwater
WELL 9WellGroundwater
WELL 10WellGroundwater
REPLACEMENT WELL 6WellGroundwater

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

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 ↗

4 violations 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: 2456=Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5); 2950=TTHM; 5200=LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS; 7500=Public Notice. Currently: 5200=LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS; 7500=Public Notice.

What happened

All 4 violation records on file, grouped into the 2 distinct things EPA's codes describe. Dates are the compliance period the violation is filed against.

Violation code 4H monitoring and reporting 1 open
A required report was not filed on time. 1 record, 2025-07-02.
EPA violation code 4H, contaminant 5200 — not in the code table this build carries.
PN Violation without NPDWR Violation — Public Notice other 3 open
A requirement other than a limit, a sample or a notice was not met. 3 records, 2022-09-25 to 2023-03-25.
Rule: Public Notice Rule -- telling customers about a problem.
Every violation record, as filed (4 of 4)
Compliance periodWhatAboutKindStatusMeasured
2025-07-02 code 4H monitoring and reporting open
2023-03-25 PN Violation without NPDWR Violation Public Notice other open
2022-12-25 PN Violation without NPDWR Violation Public Notice other open
2022-09-25 PN Violation without NPDWR Violation Public Notice other open

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.

DateActionBy
2025-10-17 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2025-10-17 St Public Notif requested state
2025-08-01 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2025-08-01 St Public Notif requested state
2025-07-01 St Public Notif received
Included in 2025 CCR - znk 07/03/2025
state
2025-04-21 St Compliance achieved state
2024-12-19 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2024-12-19 St Public Notif requested state
2023-10-10 St Compliance achieved
SOXing; monitored and reported next required sample on 10/10/2023. MM 10/26/2023
state
2023-04-05 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2023-01-20 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2022-10-19 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2022-10-17 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2022-10-17 St Public Notif requested state
2020-10-02 St Compliance achieved
Fluoride sample submitted on 10/02/2020 slh 01/21/2021
state
2020-02-05 St Violation/Reminder Notice state
2020-02-05 St Public Notif requested state

Lead and copper

The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.0 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 ↗

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 Wray, Colorado?

The City of Wray is the public water system serving 2,342 people in Yuma County, from groundwater. Its EPA public water system id is CO0163010.

Where does the City of Wray get its water?

The City of Wray reports groundwater as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as WELL 7, WELL 8, WELL 9, WELL 10.

Does the City of Wray have any drinking water violations?

EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for the City of Wray 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 Yuma 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 →