Transient Non-Community · PWSID NM3560217

Western Refining Sw, Gallup Refinery

Serves 913 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateGallup, New Mexico
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On record since 2001: 47 violations. 8 treatment lapses · 30 missed or late tests · 9 notices or reports. Most recent began 2021-12-19.

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
8Treatment lapse
30Missed or late test
9Notice or report

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

2001 · Missed or late test: 120052007 · Missed or late test: 12007 · Notice or report: 12008 · Notice or report: 120102013 · Missed or late test: 12014 · Missed or late test: 42014 · Missed or late test: 42015 · Missed or late test: 132015 · Missed or late test: 132015 · Missed or late test: 132015 · Missed or late test: 132015 · Missed or late test: 132015 · Missed or late test: 132015 · Missed or late test: 1320152016 · Missed or late test: 62016 · Missed or late test: 62016 · Missed or late test: 62016 · Notice or report: 22017 · Treatment lapse: 82017 · Treatment lapse: 82017 · Treatment lapse: 82017 · Treatment lapse: 82017 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Notice or report: 32017 · Notice or report: 32018 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Notice or report: 22025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
17% treatment lapse · 864% missed or late test · 3019% notice or report · 9

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

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 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

5.8 ppb
5.8 ppb
1.9 ppb
1.1 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2021-12-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2021-11-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2020-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2018-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2018-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2017-11-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2017-11-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2017-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  9. 2017-06-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2017-03-30Groundwater Rule ×4Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  11. 2017-01-02Groundwater Rule ×4Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  12. 2016-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2016-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2016-07-01Chlorine ×2Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  15. 2016-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  16. 2016-06-02Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance
  17. 2016-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  18. 2016-02-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2015-10-01Chlorine ×3Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  20. 2015-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  21. 2015-07-01Chlorine ×3Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  22. 2015-04-01Chlorine ×3Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  23. 2015-01-01Chlorine ×3Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  24. 2014-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  25. 2014-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
Show the other 7 entries
  1. 2014-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2014-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  3. 2013-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  4. 2008-01-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2007-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  6. 2007-03-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2001-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served913
Service connections5
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityGallup
EPA ZIP on file87301

Areas served

  • Gallup, Mckinley County

Reading this record

Western Refining Sw, Gallup Refinery is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 913 people in Gallup, 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.