Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID NM3500228

La Promesa Elementary School

Serves 251 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateBelen, New MexicoServes a school or daycare
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On record since 2002: 70 violations. 4 over the limit · 30 missed or late tests · 36 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-05-04.

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4Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
30Missed or late test
36Notice or report

More violations on record than 89% 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

2002 · Missed or late test: 120052006 · Notice or report: 22008 · Notice or report: 32008 · Notice or report: 32009 · Notice or report: 220102015 · Over the limit: 32015 · Over the limit: 320152016 · Missed or late test: 12016 · Notice or report: 32016 · Notice or report: 32018 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 122019 · Missed or late test: 122019 · Missed or late test: 122019 · Missed or late test: 122019 · Missed or late test: 122019 · Missed or late test: 122020 · Missed or late test: 82020 · Missed or late test: 82020 · Missed or late test: 82020 · Missed or late test: 820202021 · Over the limit: 12021 · Notice or report: 222021 · Notice or report: 222021 · Notice or report: 222021 · Notice or report: 222021 · Notice or report: 222021 · Notice or report: 222021 · Notice or report: 222021 · Notice or report: 222021 · Notice or report: 222021 · Notice or report: 222021 · Notice or report: 222022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
6% over the limit · 443% missed or late test · 3051% notice or report · 36

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

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Arsenic2021-10-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0180 MG/L vs limit 0.0100 MG/L (1.8×)2015-07-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0120 MG/L vs limit 0.0100 MG/L (1.2×)2015-04-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0110 MG/L vs limit 0.0100 MG/L (1.1×)2015-01-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0110 MG/L vs limit 0.0100 MG/L (1.1×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

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 6 results on file · action level 15 ppb

26 ppb
26 ppb
8.4 ppb
7.9 ppb
1.2 ppb
1.1 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-05-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2023-04-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2023-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  4. 2023-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2022-09-18E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  6. 2022-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  7. 2022-03-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2022-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  9. 2021-10-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0180 MG/L · limit 0.0100 MG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2021-10-01Public Notice ×20PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2021-08-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2021-03-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2020-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  14. 2020-08-06E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  15. 2020-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  16. 2020-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  17. 2020-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  18. 2020-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  19. 2020-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  20. 2020-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  21. 2019-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  22. 2019-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  23. 2019-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  24. 2019-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  25. 2019-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
Show the other 24 entries
  1. 2019-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2019-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2019-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2019-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2019-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2019-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2019-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2018-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2018-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2018-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2018-03-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2016-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  13. 2016-05-24Public Notice ×3PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2015-07-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0120 MG/L · limit 0.0100 MG/LBack in compliance
  15. 2015-04-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0110 MG/L · limit 0.0100 MG/LBack in compliance
  16. 2015-01-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0110 MG/L · limit 0.0100 MG/LBack in compliance
  17. 2009-11-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2009-04-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2008-12-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2008-09-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2008-06-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2006-07-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2006-05-02Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2002-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served251
Service connections2
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityBelen
EPA ZIP on file87002

Areas served

  • Las Nutrias, Socorro County

Reading this record

La Promesa Elementary School is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 251 people in Belen, 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.