Transient Non-Community · PWSID CO0235506

Fire Mountain Programs

Serves 26 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateEstes Park, 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 1999: 4 violations. 1 over the limit · 1 missed or late test · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-10-01.

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

1Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
1Missed or late test
2Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 43% 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

1999 · Notice or report: 1200020052008 · Notice or report: 1201020152016 · Missed or late test: 120202024 · Over the limit: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
25% over the limit · 125% missed or late test · 150% notice or report · 2

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

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Nitrate2024-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 14.30 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.4×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

Open now (1)

  1. 1999-10-19Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 14.30 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2016-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2008-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  4. 1999-10-19Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen

System details

Population served26
Service connections5
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityEstes Park
EPA ZIP on file80517

Areas served

  • Larimer County

Reading this record

Fire Mountain Programs is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 26 people in Estes Park, 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.