Community Water System · PWSID NM3563319

Enchanted Valley Wua

Serves 41 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentAlamogordo, New Mexico
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Lead service line inventory. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 2010: 45 violations. 4 treatment lapses · 16 missed or late tests · 25 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-08-17.

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 lapse1 open
16Missed or late test2 open
25Notice or report9 open

More violations on record than 80% 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: 120102011 · Missed or late test: 12014 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Notice or report: 22019 · Notice or report: 22020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Notice or report: 32020 · Notice or report: 32020 · Notice or report: 320202021 · Notice or report: 32021 · Notice or report: 32021 · Notice or report: 32022 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Notice or report: 32022 · Notice or report: 32022 · Notice or report: 32023 · Treatment lapse: 32023 · Treatment lapse: 32023 · Treatment lapse: 32023 · Notice or report: 32023 · Notice or report: 32023 · Notice or report: 32024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Notice or report: 62024 · Notice or report: 62024 · Notice or report: 62024 · Notice or report: 62024 · Notice or report: 62024 · Notice or report: 62025 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Notice or report: 22025 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
9% treatment lapse · 436% missed or late test · 1656% notice or report · 25

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 2 results on file · action level 15 ppb

1.8 ppb
1.5 ppb

Open now (12)

  1. 2025-08-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  3. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  4. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  5. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen
  6. 2024-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  7. 2024-08-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  8. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  9. 2024-05-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  10. 2024-01-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  11. 2023-06-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  12. 2022-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-08-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  3. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  4. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  5. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen
  6. 2024-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  7. 2024-08-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  8. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  9. 2024-05-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  10. 2024-01-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  11. 2023-10-13Groundwater Rule ×3Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  12. 2023-07-18Groundwater RuleFailure to Consult with StateBack in compliance
  13. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  14. 2023-06-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  15. 2022-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  16. 2022-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  17. 2022-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  18. 2022-06-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2021-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  20. 2021-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  21. 2021-03-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2020-11-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2020-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  24. 2020-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  25. 2020-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
Show the other 18 entries
  1. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  2. 2020-01-01AsbestosMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2019-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  4. 2019-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2019-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  7. 2018-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2018-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2018-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2018-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  11. 2017-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2017-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  13. 2016-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  15. 2016-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  16. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  17. 2011-01-01AsbestosMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2010-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served41
Service connections15
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityAlamogordo
EPA ZIP on file88310

Areas served

  • Alamogordo, Otero County

Reading this record

Enchanted Valley Wua is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 41 people in Alamogordo, 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.