Community Water System · PWSID NM3513619

High Rolls Community Water Users Coop

Serves 364 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentHigh Rolls, 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 2008: 34 violations. 10 treatment lapses · 10 missed or late tests · 14 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-10-17.

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
10Treatment lapse1 open
10Missed or late test
14Notice or report4 open

More violations on record than 74% 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

20052008 · Missed or late test: 32008 · Missed or late test: 32008 · Missed or late test: 320102014 · Missed or late test: 42014 · Missed or late test: 42014 · Missed or late test: 42014 · Missed or late test: 420152016 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Treatment lapse: 62019 · Treatment lapse: 62019 · Treatment lapse: 62019 · Treatment lapse: 62019 · Treatment lapse: 62019 · Treatment lapse: 62019 · Notice or report: 62019 · Notice or report: 62019 · Notice or report: 62019 · Notice or report: 62019 · Notice or report: 62019 · Notice or report: 62020 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202022 · Treatment lapse: 32022 · Treatment lapse: 32022 · Treatment lapse: 32022 · Notice or report: 22022 · Notice or report: 22023 · Notice or report: 22023 · Notice or report: 22024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Notice or report: 22024 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
29% treatment lapse · 1029% missed or late test · 1041% notice or report · 14

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
4 ppb
1 ppb

Open now (5)

  1. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen
  3. 2024-05-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2023-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  5. 2022-03-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen
  3. 2024-05-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2023-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  5. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  6. 2022-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  7. 2022-03-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  8. 2022-02-04Groundwater Rule ×3Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  9. 2020-11-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2020-01-01AsbestosMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2019-05-30Public Notice ×6PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2019-03-02Groundwater Rule ×6Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  13. 2018-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  14. 2018-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  15. 2016-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  16. 2014-08-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  17. 2014-08-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  18. 2014-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2014-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  20. 2008-01-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2008-01-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2008-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance

System details

Population served364
Service connections135
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityHigh Rolls
EPA ZIP on file88325

Areas served

  • High Rolls Mountain Park, Otero County

Reading this record

High Rolls Community Water Users Coop is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 364 people in High Rolls, 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.