Community Water System · PWSID NM3500624

Lee Hammond Water

Serves 8,817 peopleSurface WaterOwner: PrivateBloomfield, New Mexico
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On record since 2013: 22 violations. 1 over the limit · 10 treatment lapses · 7 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2022-11-01.

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

1Over the limit
10Treatment lapse
7Missed or late test
4Notice or report

More violations on record than 59% 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

200520102013 · Notice or report: 12015 · Treatment lapse: 42015 · Treatment lapse: 42015 · Treatment lapse: 42015 · Treatment lapse: 420152016 · Treatment lapse: 42016 · Treatment lapse: 42016 · Treatment lapse: 42016 · Treatment lapse: 42017 · Treatment lapse: 22017 · Treatment lapse: 22020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 320202021 · Notice or report: 22021 · Notice or report: 22022 · Over the limit: 12022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
5% over the limit · 145% treatment lapse · 1032% missed or late test · 718% notice or report · 4

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

1.6 ppb
0.83 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2022-11-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  2. 2022-11-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  3. 2022-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  4. 2022-01-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2022-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2022-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2021-11-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2021-04-01Groundwater RuleFailure to Notify Other PWSBack in compliance
  9. 2020-12-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  10. 2020-10-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  11. 2020-10-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  12. 2017-04-01Carbon, TotalTreatment Technique Precursor RemovalBack in compliance
  13. 2017-01-01Carbon, TotalTreatment Technique Precursor RemovalBack in compliance
  14. 2016-10-01Carbon, TotalTreatment Technique Precursor RemovalBack in compliance
  15. 2016-07-01Carbon, TotalTreatment Technique Precursor RemovalBack in compliance
  16. 2016-04-01Carbon, TotalTreatment Technique Precursor RemovalBack in compliance
  17. 2016-01-01Carbon, TotalTreatment Technique Precursor RemovalBack in compliance
  18. 2015-10-01Carbon, TotalTreatment Technique Precursor RemovalBack in compliance
  19. 2015-07-01Carbon, TotalTreatment Technique Precursor RemovalBack in compliance
  20. 2015-04-01Carbon, TotalTreatment Technique Precursor RemovalBack in compliance
  21. 2015-01-01Carbon, TotalTreatment Technique Precursor RemovalBack in compliance
  22. 2013-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served8,817
Service connections2,673
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityBloomfield
EPA ZIP on file87413

Areas served

  • Bloomfield, San Juan County

Reading this record

Lee Hammond Water is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 8,817 people in Bloomfield, 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.