Community Water System · PWSID NM3510201

South Hills Water Company

Serves 506 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateAlbuquerque, New Mexico
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Revised Total Coliform Rule. 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 1993: 48 violations. 6 treatment lapses · 18 missed or late tests · 24 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-08-11.

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
6Treatment lapse1 open
18Missed or late test
24Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 82% 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

1993 · Missed or late test: 31993 · Missed or late test: 31993 · Missed or late test: 319951999 · Notice or report: 120002002 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Missed or late test: 12007 · Notice or report: 12008 · Notice or report: 12009 · Notice or report: 22009 · Notice or report: 220102011 · Missed or late test: 22011 · Missed or late test: 22012 · Missed or late test: 12012 · Notice or report: 22012 · Notice or report: 22013 · Missed or late test: 12013 · Notice or report: 42013 · Notice or report: 42013 · Notice or report: 42013 · Notice or report: 42014 · Missed or late test: 32014 · Missed or late test: 32014 · Missed or late test: 32014 · Notice or report: 22014 · Notice or report: 22015 · Treatment lapse: 22015 · Treatment lapse: 220152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Notice or report: 22017 · Notice or report: 22018 · Treatment lapse: 12018 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Notice or report: 22018 · Notice or report: 22019 · Treatment lapse: 12019 · Notice or report: 22019 · Notice or report: 22020 · Treatment lapse: 12020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Notice or report: 32021 · Notice or report: 32021 · Notice or report: 32024 · Treatment lapse: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
13% treatment lapse · 638% missed or late test · 1850% notice or report · 24

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

What you can do

  • Total Coliform Bacteria: If your water system has coliform violations, consider boiling water or using bottled water until the system confirms the issue is resolved. Contact your water provider for their latest test results and any boil-water advisories.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 1 result on file · action level 15 ppb

0 ppb

Open now (2)

  1. 2024-08-11Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  2. 1999-10-19Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-08-11Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  2. 2021-07-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2021-07-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2021-06-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2020-09-19E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  6. 2020-09-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2020-08-11Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  8. 2020-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2020-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2019-11-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2019-04-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2019-01-25Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  13. 2018-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  14. 2018-10-30Groundwater RuleFailure to Consult with StateBack in compliance
  15. 2018-10-05E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  16. 2018-08-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2017-11-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2017-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  19. 2017-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  20. 2016-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  21. 2016-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  22. 2015-12-09Groundwater Rule ×2Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  23. 2014-12-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2014-12-04E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  25. 2014-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
Show the other 21 entries
  1. 2014-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  3. 2013-12-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2013-11-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2013-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  6. 2013-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  7. 2013-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  8. 2012-12-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2012-09-13E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  10. 2012-08-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2011-11-10E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  12. 2011-08-04E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  13. 2009-08-27Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2009-07-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2008-07-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2007-10-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2006-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  18. 2002-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  19. 1999-10-19Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  20. 1993-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  21. 1993-01-01Lead and Copper Rule ×2Initial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served506
Service connections200
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityAlbuquerque
EPA ZIP on file87121

Areas served

  • Albuquerque, Bernalillo County

Reading this record

South Hills Water Company is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 506 people in Albuquerque, 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.