Transient Non-Community · PWSID NM3580217

Gallup Port of Entry

Serves 1,500 peopleGroundwaterOwner: StateGallup, New Mexico
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

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 2006: 28 violations. 4 treatment lapses · 3 missed or late tests · 21 notices or reports. Most recent began 2020-06-27.

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
3Missed or late test
21Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 67% 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

20052006 · Notice or report: 12007 · Notice or report: 12008 · Notice or report: 12010 · Notice or report: 32010 · Notice or report: 32010 · Notice or report: 320102011 · Notice or report: 22011 · Notice or report: 22012 · Notice or report: 12013 · Treatment lapse: 22013 · Treatment lapse: 22014 · Notice or report: 32014 · Notice or report: 32014 · Notice or report: 32015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Notice or report: 32016 · Notice or report: 32016 · Notice or report: 32017 · Notice or report: 22017 · Notice or report: 22018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Treatment lapse: 22019 · Treatment lapse: 22019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
14% treatment lapse · 411% missed or late test · 375% notice or report · 21

Across New Mexico, 40% of violations are missed or late tests and 6% are water over a limit.

Open now (1)

  1. 2011-02-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2020-06-27Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2020-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2019-05-09Groundwater Rule ×2Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  4. 2019-02-11Groundwater RuleFailure to Consult with StateBack in compliance
  5. 2018-04-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2017-06-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2017-05-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2016-08-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2016-06-02Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance
  10. 2016-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2016-05-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2016-03-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  13. 2015-02-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2014-11-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2014-07-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2014-04-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2013-08-05Groundwater Rule ×2Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  18. 2012-02-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2011-12-02Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2011-02-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  21. 2010-05-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2010-03-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2010-01-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2008-11-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  25. 2007-11-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
Show the other 1 entries
  1. 2006-02-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served1,500
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerState
StatusActive
CityGallup
EPA ZIP on file87305

Areas served

  • Gallup, Mckinley County

Reading this record

Gallup Port of Entry is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 1,500 people in Gallup, 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.