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Lea County, New Mexico

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet NM025 · Lea County 23 sys · 1,905 viol · #777/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-MID · RANK-UPPER · BELOW-PEER · PFAS-MID · SRC-GW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 87.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 25.4% health
  • RANK-UPPER #777/3254
  • BELOW-PEER 3.0 pp cleaner
  • PFAS-MID 33.3% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 23 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Quay County (+ 3 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Lea County ranks #777 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #8 of 33 counties in New Mexico. See methodology · corpus placement.

Lea County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 87.0% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 25.4% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 33.3% is UCMR5 detect rate in the tested-pool middle third (≤ 33.3%) . Population served ranks #777 of 3,254 · #8 of 33 in New Mexico.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Lea County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Lea County on % of SDWIS systems with ≥1 violation. Full ladder: /counties.

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Colfax · lowest Quay · near Sierra · near Harding · highest 63.5% 87% 90% 95.1% 95.5% 98.1% 100%

Source: EPA SDWIS (county aggregates) As of 2026-05-15

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Lower-flagged peers for Lea County

Cross-state counties nearest Lea County on flagged-system share (87.0%) and cumulative violation count (1,905). In-state neighbours stay on the compliance plate above.

Similar flagged-system rate

Nearest cross-state counties by % of SDWIS systems with at least one violation on record.

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Similar violation load

Nearest cross-state counties by cumulative SDWIS violation count (all systems in the county).

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Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater

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