Community Water System · PWSID CO0135143

Big Elk Meadows Wa

Serves 405 peopleSurface WaterOwner: PrivateFt Morgan, Colorado
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 2015: 40 violations. 7 treatment lapses · 20 missed or late tests · 13 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-02-14.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

0Over the limit
7Treatment lapse
20Missed or late test
13Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 90% of active water systems in Colorado. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

200520102015 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Missed or late test: 220152016 · Treatment lapse: 12016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Treatment lapse: 22017 · Treatment lapse: 22017 · Missed or late test: 52017 · Missed or late test: 52017 · Missed or late test: 52017 · Missed or late test: 52017 · Missed or late test: 52017 · Notice or report: 42017 · Notice or report: 42017 · Notice or report: 42017 · Notice or report: 42018 · Treatment lapse: 42018 · Treatment lapse: 42018 · Treatment lapse: 42018 · Treatment lapse: 42018 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Notice or report: 62019 · Notice or report: 62019 · Notice or report: 62019 · Notice or report: 62019 · Notice or report: 62019 · Notice or report: 620202021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
18% treatment lapse · 750% missed or late test · 2033% notice or report · 13

Across Colorado, 74% of violations are missed or late tests and 6% are water over a limit.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 19 results on file · action level 15 ppb

34 ppb
8.6 ppb
8.6 ppb
6 ppb
6 ppb
5 ppb
5 ppb
5 ppb
3 ppb
3 ppb
2.6 ppb
2 ppb
2 ppb
2 ppb
2 ppb
2 ppb
2 ppb
2 ppb
2 ppb

Copper, 90th percentile 1 result on file · action level 1.3 mg/L

1.4 mg/L

Open now (1)

  1. 2025-02-14Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-02-14Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-01-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-12-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-12-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-11-14Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2022-12-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  7. 2022-12-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  8. 2021-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  9. 2021-05-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  10. 2019-12-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2019-09-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2019-07-07Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  14. 2019-06-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2019-03-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2018-11-04Groundwater Rule ×4Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  17. 2018-10-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  18. 2018-09-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  19. 2018-08-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  20. 2018-07-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  21. 2018-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  22. 2017-08-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2017-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  24. 2017-07-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  25. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
Show the other 12 entries
  1. 2017-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  2. 2017-06-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  3. 2017-05-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2017-05-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2017-04-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  6. 2017-04-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  7. 2017-01-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  8. 2016-12-31Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  9. 2016-12-01Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationBack in compliance
  10. 2016-01-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  11. 2015-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2015-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance

System details

Population served405
Service connections157
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityFt Morgan
EPA ZIP on file80701

Areas served

  • Larimer County

Reading this record

Big Elk Meadows Wa is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 405 people in Ft Morgan, Colorado. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.