Hydrohistorian
Gateway Childcare and Preschool
Where the water comes from
| Facility | Kind | Water |
|---|---|---|
| WELL | Well | Groundwater |
| PURCHASED FROM CO0160180 | Non-piped, purchased | Surface water · from GOLD RUSH WC |
| PURCHASED FROM CO0251452 | Non-piped, purchased | Surface water · from KOURY TRANSPORT |
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 GOLD RUSH WC, KOURY TRANSPORT.
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 ↗
1 violation 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: 3014=E. COLI; 5000=Lead and Copper Rule. Currently: 3014=E. COLI.
What happened
All 2 violation records on file, grouped into the 2 distinct things EPA's codes describe. Dates are the compliance period the violation is filed against.
Rule: Groundwater Rule -- protecting wells from faecal contamination.
Rule: Lead and Copper Rule -- corrosion of household plumbing.
Every violation record, as filed (2 of 2)
| Compliance period | What | About | Kind | Status | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-07-01 – 2024-12-31 | WQP Entry Point/Tap Treatment Technique Non-Compliance | Lead and Copper Rule | health-based | returned to compliance (2025-05-12) | |
| 2020-07-04 | Monitoring, Source Water (GWR) | E. Coli | monitoring and reporting | open |
What the regulator did about it
40 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-12 | St Compliance achieved 59 vio for WQP FANL excursion RTC through one monitoring period (6M2025-01) of LCR results without an action level exceedance (lfra 05/12/25); |
state |
| 2025-02-23 | St Public Notif received | state |
| 2025-01-29 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2025-01-29 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2020-08-26 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2020-08-26 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2020-08-26 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2020-08-26 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2020-08-26 | St Compliance achieved System collected repeats on Monday following Friday TC+ and collected 3 temp routines the following month. hpo 10/29/2020 |
state |
| 2020-01-20 | St Compliance achieved WQPs collected as a result of 2019 ALE. hpo 2/10/2020 |
state |
| 2019-12-31 | St Compliance achieved SOX applied since system qualified for reduced monitoring in 2018 and therefore sampling not required in 2019. Must sample in 2021. Not deleted since vio was reported to EPA. TRIC |
state |
| 2019-10-29 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2019-10-29 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2018-11-12 | St Public Notif received Public notice completed and submitted to Department. hpo |
state |
| 2018-11-12 | St Compliance achieved Lead consumer notice posted and sent home with each child 11/12/2018. Sample copy and COD submitted to Department. hpo |
state |
| 2018-10-23 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2018-10-23 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2018-10-05 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2018-07-10 | St Public Notif received | state |
| 2018-06-28 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
20 most recent of 40; the rest are on the ECHO report.
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. Copper 1.66 mg/L against 1.3 mg/L, above it. 22 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 Windsor, Colorado?
Gateway Childcare and Preschool is the non-transient non-community water system (a school, workplace or similar) serving 116 people, from purchased surface water. Its EPA public water system id is CO0221302.
Where does Gateway Childcare and Preschool get its water?
Gateway Childcare and Preschool reports purchased surface water as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as WELL, PURCHASED FROM CO0160180, PURCHASED FROM CO0251452.
Does Gateway Childcare and Preschool have any drinking water violations?
EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for Gateway Childcare and Preschool at the last monthly fetch. Older and non-health-based entries, if any, are listed on this page.
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 →