Community Water System · PWSID NM3546223

North Ranchos De Placitas W&Sd

Serves 659 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentPlacitas, 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 1996: 29 violations. 1 over the limit · 15 treatment lapses · 2 missed or late tests · 11 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-12-07.

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

1Over the limit
15Treatment lapse1 open
2Missed or late test
11Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 69% 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

1996 · Missed or late test: 1200020052010 · Notice or report: 120102011 · Notice or report: 12014 · Notice or report: 22014 · Notice or report: 22015 · Treatment lapse: 52015 · Treatment lapse: 52015 · Treatment lapse: 52015 · Treatment lapse: 52015 · Treatment lapse: 52015 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Notice or report: 22015 · Notice or report: 220152016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Notice or report: 12020 · Treatment lapse: 32020 · Treatment lapse: 32020 · Treatment lapse: 32020 · Notice or report: 120202024 · Over the limit: 12024 · Treatment lapse: 72024 · Treatment lapse: 72024 · Treatment lapse: 72024 · Treatment lapse: 72024 · Treatment lapse: 72024 · Treatment lapse: 72024 · Treatment lapse: 72024 · 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.
3% over the limit · 152% treatment lapse · 157% missed or late test · 238% notice or report · 11

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

Open now (2)

  1. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-12-07Groundwater Rule ×6Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  3. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen
  4. 2024-09-11Groundwater RuleFailure to Consult with StateBack in compliance
  5. 2024-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  6. 2020-05-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2020-04-11Groundwater Rule ×3Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  8. 2017-01-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2016-01-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2015-12-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  11. 2015-11-27Groundwater Rule ×4Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  12. 2015-10-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2015-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  14. 2015-09-01Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  15. 2014-10-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2014-09-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2011-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  18. 2010-05-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 1996-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served659
Service connections243
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityPlacitas
EPA ZIP on file87043

Areas served

  • Placitas, Sandoval County

Reading this record

North Ranchos De Placitas W&Sd is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 659 people in Placitas, 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.