Community Water System · PWSID NM3593226

Bishops Lodge

Serves 450 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateSanta Fe, New Mexico
Nothing open that measures the water, but 5 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 2014: 21 violations. 4 treatment lapses · 10 missed or late tests · 7 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-09-29.

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
4Treatment lapse
10Missed or late test2 open
7Notice or report3 open

More violations on record than 57% of active water systems in New Mexico. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

200520102014 · Missed or late test: 22014 · Missed or late test: 220152016 · Missed or late test: 12016 · Notice or report: 12018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Treatment lapse: 32019 · Treatment lapse: 32019 · Treatment lapse: 32019 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Notice or report: 22020 · Notice or report: 220202021 · Notice or report: 12023 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Notice or report: 22024 · Notice or report: 22025 · Missed or late test: 22025 · Missed or late test: 22025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
19% treatment lapse · 448% missed or late test · 1033% notice or report · 7

Across New Mexico, 40% 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 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

60 ppb
6 ppb
1.8 ppb

Open now (5)

  1. 2025-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  2. 2023-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  3. 2021-03-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2020-12-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2020-03-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  2. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  3. 2025-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  4. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTBack in compliance
  5. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTBack in compliance
  6. 2024-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2024-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  8. 2023-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  9. 2021-03-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  10. 2020-12-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  11. 2020-03-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  12. 2019-10-23Groundwater Rule ×3Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  13. 2019-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  14. 2018-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  15. 2018-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  16. 2016-10-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2016-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  18. 2014-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2014-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance

System details

Population served450
Service connections60
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CitySanta Fe
EPA ZIP on file87505

Areas served

  • Santa Fe, Santa Fe County

Reading this record

Bishops Lodge is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 450 people in Santa Fe, New Mexico. 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.