Community Water System · PWSID NM3532617

Top of the World Water Association Corp

Serves 177 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateContinental Divide, New Mexico
2 open treatment violations.

Open for: Groundwater 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 1996: 31 violations. 17 treatment lapses · 6 missed or late tests · 8 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-03-15.

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
17Treatment lapse2 open
6Missed or late test
8Notice or report

More violations on record than 71% 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: 11999 · Notice or report: 21999 · Notice or report: 220002001 · Missed or late test: 120052007 · Notice or report: 22007 · Notice or report: 22008 · Missed or late test: 12010 · Notice or report: 22010 · Notice or report: 220102014 · Treatment lapse: 102014 · Treatment lapse: 102014 · Treatment lapse: 102014 · Treatment lapse: 102014 · Treatment lapse: 102014 · Treatment lapse: 102014 · Treatment lapse: 102014 · Treatment lapse: 102014 · Treatment lapse: 102014 · Treatment lapse: 102015 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Missed or late test: 220152016 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Treatment lapse: 32020 · Treatment lapse: 32020 · Treatment lapse: 320202023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Treatment lapse: 32025 · Treatment lapse: 32025 · Treatment lapse: 32025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
55% treatment lapse · 1719% missed or late test · 626% notice or report · 8

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

Open now (2)

  1. 2025-03-15Groundwater Rule ×2Failure To Address DeficiencyOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-03-15Groundwater Rule ×2Failure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  2. 2025-03-15Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  3. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTBack in compliance
  4. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTBack in compliance
  5. 2023-05-27Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2020-04-30Groundwater Rule ×3Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  7. 2016-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  8. 2015-07-31E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  9. 2015-07-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Repeat Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  10. 2014-05-18Groundwater Rule ×5Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  11. 2014-02-20Groundwater Rule ×5Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  12. 2010-11-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2010-07-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2008-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  15. 2007-03-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2007-03-02Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2001-10-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  18. 1999-10-19Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  19. 1999-07-01Coliform (TCR)Notification, PublicBack in compliance
  20. 1996-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served177
Service connections52
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityContinental Divide
EPA ZIP on file87312

Areas served

  • Continental Divide, Mckinley County

Reading this record

Top of the World Water Association Corp is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 177 people in Continental Divide, 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.