The context
Star Valley Water District serves about 1,850 customers in western Wyoming across a mix of year-round residents, seasonal homes, and a regional school. One licensed operator handles water quality, distribution, and compliance reporting.
The 2024 CCR cycle took about a full work week split across late May and June — the operator described it as “everything else stops for a week.”
The shift
For 2026, Star Valley joined the early-access program. The goal was to compress the annual CCR cycle into a single afternoon of focused work.
The constraints mattered: one licensed operator, a spreadsheet-based historical workflow, no consultant budget, no state overlay needed (federal baseline only at launch for Wyoming).
Outcomes
- First-draft time: 4 hours of focused work across one afternoon, down from 5 working days.
- 41 contaminant values with full cell-level provenance. Every value in the published CCR table links back to its lab PDF source.
- First submission accepted by the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality without rejection.
What changed structurally
Star Valley’s operator used to retype contaminant values from the lab PDFs into a CCR template. Each retype carried a risk of unit error, transcription error, or misalignment against Appendix A. Now the values flow straight from the lab PDF to the CCR table, with the audit trail showing every extraction.
Quote
“I finally got my afternoon back in June. Used to be the CCR ate the first week of the month. Now it’s an afternoon, and the state reviewer can see exactly where every number came from.”
— Operator, Star Valley Water District (Afton, WY)