Community Water System · PWSID NM3500224

La Vida Mission Community Water Supply

Serves 200 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateEckert, Colorado
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Groundwater Rule. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 2000: 44 violations. 1 over the limit · 6 treatment lapses · 9 missed or late tests · 28 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-06-01.

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

1Over the limit
6Treatment lapse1 open
9Missed or late test
28Notice or report

More violations on record than 91% 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

2000 · Notice or report: 120002005 · Notice or report: 22005 · Notice or report: 220052006 · Notice or report: 32006 · Notice or report: 32006 · Notice or report: 32008 · Notice or report: 12009 · Notice or report: 22009 · Notice or report: 22010 · Notice or report: 120102011 · Notice or report: 12013 · Notice or report: 12014 · Treatment lapse: 22014 · Treatment lapse: 22014 · Missed or late test: 12014 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Notice or report: 62017 · Notice or report: 62017 · Notice or report: 62017 · Notice or report: 62017 · Notice or report: 62017 · Notice or report: 62018 · Notice or report: 32018 · Notice or report: 32018 · Notice or report: 32020 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202022 · Over the limit: 12022 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Treatment lapse: 42023 · Treatment lapse: 42023 · Treatment lapse: 42023 · Treatment lapse: 42023 · Notice or report: 32023 · Notice or report: 32023 · Notice or report: 32025 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
2% over the limit · 114% treatment lapse · 620% missed or late test · 964% notice or report · 28

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 2 results on file · action level 15 ppb

0.26 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2023-07-29Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-06-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2023-09-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2023-09-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2023-09-12Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  5. 2023-07-29Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  6. 2023-07-29Groundwater Rule ×2Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  7. 2023-04-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2022-04-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2022-04-16E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  10. 2022-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  11. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  12. 2020-01-01AsbestosMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2018-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  14. 2018-03-17Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2017-11-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2017-10-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2017-09-17Public Notice ×3PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2017-06-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2016-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  20. 2016-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  21. 2016-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  22. 2016-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  23. 2016-06-02Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance
  24. 2016-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  25. 2014-11-16Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
Show the other 14 entries
  1. 2014-08-21Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  2. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  3. 2014-01-01Nitrate-NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2013-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  5. 2011-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  6. 2010-12-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2009-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  8. 2009-05-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2008-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  10. 2006-06-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2006-01-27Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2005-11-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2005-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  14. 2000-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served200
Service connections28
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityEckert
EPA ZIP on file81418

Areas served

  • Farmington, San Juan County

Reading this record

La Vida Mission Community Water Supply is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 200 people in Eckert, 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.