Community Water System · PWSID NM3504126

El Vadito De Los Cerrillos Water Assoc

Serves 461 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentCerrillos, New Mexico
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On record since 1999: 36 violations. 1 over the limit · 8 treatment lapses · 14 missed or late tests · 13 notices or reports. Most recent began 2020-07-01.

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

1Over the limit
8Treatment lapse
14Missed or late test
13Notice or report

More violations on record than 75% 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

1999 · Notice or report: 120002004 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Missed or late test: 12008 · Notice or report: 12010 · Notice or report: 42010 · Notice or report: 42010 · Notice or report: 42010 · Notice or report: 420102011 · Missed or late test: 12013 · Treatment lapse: 12013 · Missed or late test: 12014 · Missed or late test: 42014 · Missed or late test: 42014 · Missed or late test: 42014 · Missed or late test: 42015 · Treatment lapse: 32015 · Treatment lapse: 32015 · Treatment lapse: 32015 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Treatment lapse: 32016 · Treatment lapse: 32016 · Treatment lapse: 32016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Over the limit: 12018 · Treatment lapse: 12018 · Notice or report: 32018 · Notice or report: 32018 · Notice or report: 32019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
3% over the limit · 122% treatment lapse · 839% missed or late test · 1436% notice or report · 13

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 1 result on file · action level 15 ppb

11 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  2. 2019-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  3. 2019-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2019-03-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2018-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  6. 2018-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  7. 2018-05-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2018-02-23Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2017-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2017-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2016-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2016-08-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2016-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2016-01-28Groundwater Rule ×3Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  15. 2015-11-02Groundwater Rule ×3Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  16. 2015-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  17. 2014-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  18. 2014-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2014-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  20. 2014-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  21. 2013-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  22. 2013-03-07Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  23. 2011-01-01AsbestosMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2010-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  25. 2010-08-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
Show the other 6 entries
  1. 2010-07-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2010-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  3. 2008-02-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2006-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  5. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  6. 1999-10-19Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served461
Service connections170
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityCerrillos
EPA ZIP on file87010

Areas served

  • Cerrillos, Santa Fe County

Reading this record

El Vadito De Los Cerrillos Water Assoc is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 461 people in Cerrillos, 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.