Community Water System · PWSID CO0143621

Project 7 Wa

Surface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentMontrose, Colorado

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On record since 2002: 11 violations. 10 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2025-07-01.

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

0Treatment lapse

10Missed or late test

1Notice or report

More violations on record than 71% 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

One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.

91% missed or late test · 109% notice or report · 1

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 9 results on file · action level 15 ppb

2.4 ppb

2.3 ppb

2.2 ppb

1.7 ppb

1.3 ppb

1.2 ppb

0 ppb

Every violation on record

2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
2022-06-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
2022-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
2020-01-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
2020-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
2018-04-01TurbidityMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
2018-04-01CryptosporidiumMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
2016-11-01TurbidityMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
2016-11-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
2016-11-01CryptosporidiumMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
2002-04-11DBP Stage 1Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance

System details

Population served	0
Service connections	23,810
Water source	Surface Water
System type	Community Water System
Owner	Local Government
Status	Active
City	Montrose
EPA ZIP on file	81402

Areas served

Montrose County

Reading this record

Project 7 Wa is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 0 people in Montrose, 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.