Transient Non-Community · PWSID CO0234880

Vallecito Resort

Serves 256 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateBayfield, Colorado
Nothing open that measures the water, but 3 open testing or paperwork violations.

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 2017: 5 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-09-26.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

0Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
0Missed or late test
4Notice or report3 open

More violations on record than 50% 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

2005201020152017 · Treatment lapse: 12017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Notice or report: 22018 · Notice or report: 220202024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
20% treatment lapse · 180% notice or report · 4

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

Open now (3)

  1. 2024-09-26Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2018-10-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2018-05-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-09-26Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2018-10-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2018-05-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2017-10-27Unknown contaminantRecord KeepingBack in compliance
  5. 2017-10-27Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance

System details

Population served256
Service connections170
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityBayfield
EPA ZIP on file81122

Areas served

  • La Plata County

Reading this record

Vallecito Resort is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 256 people in Bayfield, 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.