Transient Non-Community · PWSID CO0211700

Rainbow Trout Ranch

Serves 90 peopleGroundwater Under InfluenceOwner: PrivateAntonito, Colorado
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

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 2012: 21 violations. 5 treatment lapses · 13 missed or late tests · 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-08-01.

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
5Treatment lapse
13Missed or late test
3Notice 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

200520102012 · Treatment lapse: 120152017 · Treatment lapse: 22017 · Treatment lapse: 22017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Treatment lapse: 12019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Treatment lapse: 12020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
24% treatment lapse · 562% missed or late test · 1314% notice or report · 3

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2018-11-15Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-08-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  2. 2023-06-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  3. 2022-07-01Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2021-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2021-05-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  6. 2021-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  7. 2020-09-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2020-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  9. 2020-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  10. 2020-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2019-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  12. 2019-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  13. 2019-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2018-11-15Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationOpen
  15. 2017-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  16. 2017-08-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  17. 2017-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  18. 2017-07-11Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  19. 2017-06-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  20. 2017-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  21. 2012-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Failure to Filter (SWTR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served90
Service connections21
Water sourceGroundwater Under Influence
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityAntonito
EPA ZIP on file81120

Areas served

  • Conejos County

Reading this record

Rainbow Trout Ranch is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater under influence and serves about 90 people in Antonito, 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.