Community Water System · PWSID NM3563814

Enchanted Forest Water Mdwca

Serves 261 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentAlto, New Mexico
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On record since 1994: 53 violations. 4 over the limit · 6 treatment lapses · 17 missed or late tests · 26 notices or reports. Most recent began 2021-07-01.

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

4Over the limit
6Treatment lapse
17Missed or late test
26Notice or report

More violations on record than 84% 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

1994 · Over the limit: 21994 · Over the limit: 21994 · Missed or late test: 21994 · Missed or late test: 21994 · Notice or report: 21994 · Notice or report: 21995 · Missed or late test: 21995 · Missed or late test: 21995 · Notice or report: 41995 · Notice or report: 41995 · Notice or report: 41995 · Notice or report: 419951996 · Missed or late test: 11997 · Missed or late test: 21997 · Missed or late test: 21997 · Notice or report: 11998 · Over the limit: 21998 · Over the limit: 21998 · Missed or late test: 21998 · Missed or late test: 21998 · Notice or report: 41998 · Notice or report: 41998 · Notice or report: 41998 · Notice or report: 420002001 · Notice or report: 12005 · Missed or late test: 1200520102014 · Missed or late test: 32014 · Missed or late test: 32014 · Missed or late test: 32014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Treatment lapse: 32016 · Treatment lapse: 32016 · Treatment lapse: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Notice or report: 32016 · Notice or report: 32016 · Notice or report: 32018 · Notice or report: 22018 · Notice or report: 22019 · Treatment lapse: 22019 · Treatment lapse: 22019 · Notice or report: 32019 · Notice or report: 32019 · Notice or report: 32020 · Treatment lapse: 12020 · Notice or report: 42020 · Notice or report: 42020 · Notice or report: 42020 · Notice or report: 420202021 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
8% over the limit · 411% treatment lapse · 632% missed or late test · 1749% notice or report · 26

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 ppb
3.4 ppb
1.4 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2021-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  2. 2020-10-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2020-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  4. 2020-09-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2020-02-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2020-01-01Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  7. 2019-11-08Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2019-09-26Groundwater Rule ×2Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  9. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  10. 2018-11-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2018-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  12. 2016-12-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2016-09-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2016-09-16Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  15. 2016-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  16. 2016-06-21Groundwater Rule ×2Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  17. 2016-06-02Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance
  18. 2016-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  19. 2016-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  20. 2015-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  21. 2014-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  22. 2014-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  23. 2014-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  24. 2014-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  25. 2005-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
Show the other 25 entries
  1. 2001-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  2. 1998-10-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  3. 1998-08-01Coliform (TCR)Notification, PublicBack in compliance
  4. 1998-07-01Coliform (TCR)Notification, PublicBack in compliance
  5. 1998-07-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  6. 1998-06-01Coliform (TCR)Notification, PublicBack in compliance
  7. 1998-06-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  8. 1998-05-01Coliform (TCR)Notification, PublicBack in compliance
  9. 1998-05-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Repeat Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  10. 1997-11-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  11. 1997-10-01Coliform (TCR)Notification, PublicBack in compliance
  12. 1997-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Repeat Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  13. 1996-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  14. 1995-04-01Coliform (TCR)Notification, PublicBack in compliance
  15. 1995-04-01Coliform (TCR)Notification, StateBack in compliance
  16. 1995-04-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  17. 1995-03-01Coliform (TCR)Notification, StateBack in compliance
  18. 1995-03-01Coliform (TCR)Notification, PublicBack in compliance
  19. 1995-03-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  20. 1994-07-01Coliform (TCR)Notification, StateBack in compliance
  21. 1994-07-01Coliform (TCR)Notification, PublicBack in compliance
  22. 1994-07-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  23. 1994-06-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  24. 1994-05-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  25. 1994-04-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served261
Service connections98
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityAlto
EPA ZIP on file88312

Areas served

  • Alto, Lincoln County

Reading this record

Enchanted Forest Water Mdwca is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 261 people in Alto, 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.