Transient Non-Community · PWSID CO0254712

Steamboat Springs Koa

Serves 301 peopleGroundwater Under InfluenceOwner: PrivateSteamboat Springs, 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 2015: 16 violations. 8 treatment lapses · 8 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2023-05-01.

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
8Treatment lapse1 open
8Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 78% 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

200520102015 · Treatment lapse: 12015 · Missed or late test: 32015 · Missed or late test: 32015 · Missed or late test: 320152016 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Treatment lapse: 32020 · Treatment lapse: 32020 · Treatment lapse: 320202021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Treatment lapse: 22022 · Treatment lapse: 22023 · Treatment lapse: 22023 · Treatment lapse: 22023 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
50% treatment lapse · 850% missed or late test · 8

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2015-08-15Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  2. 2023-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  3. 2023-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  4. 2022-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  5. 2022-03-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  6. 2021-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2021-04-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  8. 2020-11-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  9. 2020-10-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  10. 2020-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  11. 2017-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2016-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2015-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  14. 2015-08-15Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  15. 2015-01-01Nitrate ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance

System details

Population served301
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater Under Influence
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CitySteamboat Springs
EPA ZIP on file80487

Areas served

  • Routt County

Reading this record

Steamboat Springs Koa is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater under influence and serves about 301 people in Steamboat 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.