Community Water System · PWSID CO0149476

Little Elk Creek

Serves 150 peopleGroundwater Under InfluenceOwner: PrivateSnowmass, Colorado
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On record since 2006: 29 violations. 16 treatment lapses · 11 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-10-01.

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
16Treatment lapse
11Missed or late test
2Notice or report

More violations on record than 86% 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

20052006 · Notice or report: 12007 · Notice or report: 12008 · Missed or late test: 120102015 · Treatment lapse: 12015 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Treatment lapse: 122016 · Treatment lapse: 122016 · Treatment lapse: 122016 · Treatment lapse: 122016 · Treatment lapse: 122016 · Treatment lapse: 122016 · Treatment lapse: 122016 · Treatment lapse: 122016 · Treatment lapse: 122016 · Treatment lapse: 122016 · Treatment lapse: 122016 · Treatment lapse: 122017 · Treatment lapse: 22017 · Treatment lapse: 22020 · Missed or late test: 120202023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32025 · Treatment lapse: 12025 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
55% treatment lapse · 1638% missed or late test · 117% notice or report · 2

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 17 results on file · action level 15 ppb

3.4 ppb
2.2 ppb
1.2 ppb
1.2 ppb
1.1 ppb
1.1 ppb
1 ppb
0.8 ppb
0.8 ppb
0.8 ppb
0.7 ppb
0.7 ppb
0.6 ppb
0.6 ppb
0.6 ppb
0.5 ppb
0.4 ppb

Copper, 90th percentile 4 results on file · action level 1.3 mg/L

2.1 mg/L
1.9 mg/L
1.4 mg/L
1.4 mg/L

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-10-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-10-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monthly Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-11-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  4. 2024-11-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  5. 2024-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  6. 2023-05-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  7. 2023-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  8. 2023-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  9. 2023-01-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  10. 2020-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  11. 2017-02-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  12. 2017-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  13. 2016-12-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  14. 2016-11-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  15. 2016-10-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  16. 2016-09-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  17. 2016-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  18. 2016-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  19. 2016-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  20. 2016-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  21. 2016-04-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  22. 2016-03-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  23. 2016-02-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  24. 2016-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  25. 2015-12-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
Show the other 4 entries
  1. 2015-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2008-07-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  3. 2007-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  4. 2006-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served150
Service connections78
Water sourceGroundwater Under Influence
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CitySnowmass
EPA ZIP on file81654

Areas served

  • Pitkin County

Reading this record

Little Elk Creek is a community water system that draws from groundwater under influence and serves about 150 people in Snowmass, 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.