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Los Alamos County, New Mexico

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet NM028 · Los Alamos County 2 sys · 117 viol · #1544/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-CLEAN · SRC-GW · SYS-TINY · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 12.0% health
  • RANK-MID #1544/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-TINY 2 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Dona Ana County (+ 0 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Los Alamos County ranks #1,544 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #17 of 33 counties in New Mexico. See methodology · corpus placement.

Los Alamos County standing, mid-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 100.0% is in the corpus middle third (≤ 100.0% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 12.0% is health-based share in the middle third (≤ 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 0.0% is UCMR5 detect rate at or below the tested-pool lower third (≤ 0.0%) . Population served ranks #1,544 of 3,254 · #17 of 33 in New Mexico.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Los Alamos County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Colfax · lowest Harding · highest Santa Fe · near Otero · near 63.5% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Los Alamos Municipal Water System 25,000 67 Clean
Pajarito Mountain Ski Area 350 50 -

Compare beyond New Mexico

Mid-flagged peers for Los Alamos County

Cross-state counties nearest Los Alamos County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (117). In-state neighbours stay on the compliance plate above.

Similar violation load

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

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

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