Community Water System · PWSID NM3510609

Pinos Altos Mdwca

Serves 348 peopleGroundwater PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentSilver City, New Mexico
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On record since 2003: 5 violations. 4 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2019-07-01.

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.

0Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
4Missed or late test
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 20% 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

2003 · Missed or late test: 1200520102014 · Missed or late test: 120152017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Missed or late test: 120202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
80% missed or late test · 420% notice or report · 1

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2019-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2018-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2017-01-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2014-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2003-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served348
Service connections145
Water sourceGroundwater Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CitySilver City
EPA ZIP on file88062

Areas served

  • Pinos Altos, Grant County

Reading this record

Pinos Altos Mdwca is a community water system that draws from groundwater purchased and serves about 348 people in Silver City, 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.