New Mexico Tech, Playas Facility
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 2005: 19 violations. 5 treatment lapses · 8 missed or late tests · 6 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-01.
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.
More violations on record than 55% 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
Across New Mexico, 40% of violations are missed or late tests and 6% are water over a limit.
Open now (3)
- 2025-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen
- 2025-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen
- 2024-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen
Every violation on record
- 2025-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen
- 2025-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen
- 2024-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
- 2024-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen
- 2021-02-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
- 2020-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
- 2016-01-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
- 2013-02-01Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
- 2012-12-24Groundwater Rule ×3Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
- 2012-07-13Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
- 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
- 2012-05-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
- 2011-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
- 2010-10-05E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
- 2009-04-08Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
- 2007-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
- 2005-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
System details
| Population served | 147 |
| Service connections | 286 |
| Water source | Groundwater |
| System type | Non-Transient Non-Community |
| Owner | Private |
| Status | Active |
| City | Socorro |
| EPA ZIP on file | 87801 |
Areas served
- Playas, Hidalgo County
Reading this record
New Mexico Tech, Playas Facility is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 147 people in Socorro, 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.