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Well on Wheels Water Hauler
Where the water comes from
| Facility | Kind | Water |
|---|---|---|
| PURCHASED DURANGO WATER CO0134150 | Non-piped, purchased | Surface water · from DURANGO CITY OF |
| PURCHASED S UTE INDIAN TRIBE CO0134770 | Non-piped, purchased | Surface water · from SOUTHERN UTE INDIAN TRIBE - REG BY EPA |
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 DURANGO CITY OF, SOUTHERN UTE INDIAN TRIBE - REG BY EPA.
Sells water to 2 systems: ALPINE LAKES RANCH WC, PINON HEIGHTS MHP.
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 ↗
Nothing open today, but 2 health-based violations appear on the federal record historically. The history is below.
EPA's own summary: violations in 3 of the last 12 quarters. In violation for, in EPA's words: 0200=Surface Water Treatment Rule; 0999=Chlorine; 8000=Revised Total Coliform Rule.
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.
EPA violation code 2A, contaminant 8000 — not in the code table this build carries.
Rule: Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule.
Every violation record, as filed (2 of 2)
| Compliance period | What | About | Kind | Status | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-11-12 | code 2A | Revised Total Coliform Rule | health-based | returned to compliance (2023-02-10) | |
| 2015-12-01 | Treatment Technique No Certif. Operator | DBP Stage 1 | health-based | returned to compliance (2016-10-10) |
What the regulator did about it
84 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-02 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2025-05-22 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2025-05-22 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2025-05-22 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2025-05-22 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2024-12-26 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2024-12-26 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2024-12-26 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2024-12-26 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2024-12-26 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2024-12-26 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2024-12-09 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2023-06-15 | St Public Notif received | state |
| 2023-04-14 | St Compliance achieved system distributed public notice late |
state |
| 2023-03-23 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2023-02-10 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2023-02-10 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2023-02-10 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2022-10-28 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2022-10-28 | St Public Notif requested | state |
20 most recent of 84; the rest are on the ECHO report.
No lead or copper 90th-percentile result on the federal record for this system.
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 Durango, Colorado?
Well on Wheels Water Hauler is the public water system serving 25 people in La Plata County, from purchased surface water. Its EPA public water system id is CO0234837.
Where does Well on Wheels Water Hauler get its water?
Well on Wheels Water Hauler reports purchased surface water as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as PURCHASED DURANGO WATER CO0134150, PURCHASED S UTE INDIAN TRIBE CO0134770.
Does Well on Wheels Water Hauler have any drinking water violations?
EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for Well on Wheels Water Hauler at the last monthly fetch. Older and non-health-based entries, if any, are listed on this page.
Every provider in La Plata 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 →