Transient Non-Community · PWSID NM3502323

Placitas Community Library

Serves 50 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentRio Rancho, New Mexico
Nothing open right now.

On record since 2015: 32 violations. 9 treatment lapses · 11 missed or late tests · 12 notices or reports. Most recent began 2021-10-16.

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
9Treatment lapse
11Missed or late test
12Notice or report

More violations on record than 72% 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

200520102015 · Treatment lapse: 82015 · Treatment lapse: 82015 · Treatment lapse: 82015 · Treatment lapse: 82015 · Notice or report: 42015 · Notice or report: 420152016 · Missed or late test: 82016 · Missed or late test: 82016 · Missed or late test: 82016 · Missed or late test: 82016 · Notice or report: 52016 · Notice or report: 52016 · Notice or report: 52017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Treatment lapse: 12021 · 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.
28% treatment lapse · 934% missed or late test · 1138% notice or report · 12

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2021-10-16Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  2. 2021-07-21Groundwater RuleFailure to Consult with StateBack in compliance
  3. 2020-05-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2020-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2017-06-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2017-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2017-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2016-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2016-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2016-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2016-09-15Public Notice ×4PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2016-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2016-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2016-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2016-06-02Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance
  16. 2016-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  17. 2016-01-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  18. 2015-09-19Public Notice ×4PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2015-08-21Groundwater Rule ×4Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  20. 2015-05-26Groundwater Rule ×4Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance

System details

Population served50
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityRio Rancho
EPA ZIP on file87144

Areas served

  • Placitas, Sandoval County

Reading this record

Placitas Community Library is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 50 people in Rio Rancho, 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.