Community Water System · PWSID CO0109011

Kit Carson Town of

Serves 326 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentHolly, Colorado
Nothing open that measures the water, but 2 open testing or paperwork violations.

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 2007: 21 violations. 4 over the limit · 8 missed or late tests · 9 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-01.

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

4Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
8Missed or late test1 open
9Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 82% 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

20052007 · Notice or report: 120102015 · Over the limit: 32015 · Over the limit: 32015 · Over the limit: 320152016 · Over the limit: 12016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Notice or report: 22019 · Notice or report: 22020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Notice or report: 32024 · Notice or report: 32024 · Notice or report: 32025 · 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.
19% over the limit · 438% missed or late test · 843% notice or report · 9

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×+Selenium2015-10-01 · Selenium: measured 0.0890 MG/L vs limit 0.0500 MG/L (1.8×)2015-07-01 · Selenium: measured 0.0870 MG/L vs limit 0.0500 MG/L (1.7×)2015-04-01 · Selenium: measured 0.0850 MG/L vs limit 0.0500 MG/L (1.7×)
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.

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 7 results on file · action level 15 ppb

1 ppb
0.5 ppb
0.5 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (2)

  1. 2025-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  2. 2024-09-07Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  2. 2025-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  3. 2024-09-07Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  5. 2024-06-07Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2023-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2023-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2021-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  9. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  10. 2019-10-20Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  12. 2019-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  13. 2018-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  14. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  15. 2016-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  16. 2016-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  17. 2016-01-01SeleniumMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0890 MG/LBack in compliance
  18. 2015-10-01SeleniumMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0890 MG/L · limit 0.0500 MG/LBack in compliance
  19. 2015-07-01SeleniumMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0870 MG/L · limit 0.0500 MG/LBack in compliance
  20. 2015-04-01SeleniumMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0850 MG/L · limit 0.0500 MG/LBack in compliance
  21. 2007-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served326
Service connections149
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityHolly
EPA ZIP on file81047

Areas served

  • Cheyenne County

Reading this record

Kit Carson Town of is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 326 people in Holly, 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.