Transient Non-Community · PWSID NM3510519

Silver Springs Water System

Serves 76 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateCloudcroft, New Mexico
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On record since 2014: 10 violations. 4 missed or late tests · 6 notices or reports. Most recent began 2018-01-01.

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
6Notice or report

More violations on record than 35% 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

200520102014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Notice or report: 32017 · Notice or report: 32017 · Notice or report: 32018 · Missed or late test: 120202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
40% missed or late test · 460% notice or report · 6

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2018-01-01Nitrate-NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2017-08-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2017-06-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2017-05-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2016-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2016-06-02Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance
  7. 2016-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2015-05-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2014-05-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served76
Service connections28
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityCloudcroft
EPA ZIP on file88317

Areas served

  • Cloudcroft, Otero County

Reading this record

Silver Springs Water System is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 76 people in Cloudcroft, 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.