Community Water System · PWSID NM3526704

City of Raton/Raton Water Works

Serves 9,733 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentRaton, New Mexico
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On record since 2010: 8 violations. 5 treatment lapses · 2 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2021-10-01.

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
2Missed or late test
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 29% 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

20052010 · Missed or late test: 1201020152017 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Treatment lapse: 52021 · Treatment lapse: 52021 · Treatment lapse: 52021 · Treatment lapse: 52021 · Treatment lapse: 52025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
63% treatment lapse · 525% missed or late test · 213% notice or report · 1

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

6.4 ppb
5.3 ppb
3 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2021-10-01Carbon, Total ×2Treatment Technique Precursor Removalmeasured 0.9800 RATIOBack in compliance
  2. 2021-07-01Carbon, Total ×3Treatment Technique Precursor Removalmeasured 0.9300 RATIOBack in compliance
  3. 2020-01-01AsbestosMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2017-04-01Groundwater RuleFailure to Notify Other PWSBack in compliance
  5. 2010-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served9,733
Service connections3,501
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityRaton
EPA ZIP on file87740

Areas served

  • Raton, Colfax County

Reading this record

City of Raton/Raton Water Works is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 9,733 people in Raton, 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.