Transient Non-Community · PWSID CO0204466

Last Resort on the River

Serves 52 peopleGroundwater Under InfluenceOwner: PrivatePagosa Springs, Colorado
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On record since 2019: 12 violations. 4 treatment lapses · 7 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2020-02-01.

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
4Treatment lapse
7Missed or late test
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 72% 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

2005201020152019 · Treatment lapse: 22019 · Treatment lapse: 22019 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 62020 · Treatment lapse: 22020 · Treatment lapse: 22020 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
33% treatment lapse · 458% missed or late test · 78% notice or report · 1

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2020-02-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  2. 2020-01-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2020-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  4. 2020-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  5. 2019-12-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  6. 2019-11-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  7. 2019-09-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  8. 2019-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2019-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  10. 2019-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  11. 2019-06-06Surface water treatment (SWTR)Failure to Filter (SWTR)Back in compliance
  12. 2019-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served52
Service connections16
Water sourceGroundwater Under Influence
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityPagosa Springs
EPA ZIP on file81147

Areas served

  • Pagosa Springs, Archuleta County

Reading this record

Last Resort on the River is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater under influence and serves about 52 people in Pagosa Springs, 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.