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Quay County, New Mexico

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet NM037 · Quay County 10 sys · 569 viol · #2302/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-MID · RANK-LOWER · ABOVE-PEER · PFAS-CLEAN · SRC-GW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 90.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 36.4% health
  • RANK-LOWER #2302/3254
  • ABOVE-PEER +3.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 10 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Lea County ( -3 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Quay County ranks #2,302 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #25 of 33 counties in New Mexico. See methodology · corpus placement.

Quay County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 90.0% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 36.4% is health-based share above the upper 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 #2,302 of 3,254 · #25 of 33 in New Mexico.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Quay County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Colfax · lowest Quay · this county 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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Tucumcari Water System 6,064 43 Clean
Logan Water System 2,321 48 -
Rad Water Users Coop 641 23 -
Russells Endee Truck and Travel Ctr 2 475 0 -
San Jon Water Supply 360 129 -
Liberty Mdwca 266 45 -
Glenrio Highway Rest Area 250 29 -
Hills Village Water System 126 15 -
House Water System 84 41 -
Nara Visa Mdwca 59 196 -

Compare beyond New Mexico

Lower-flagged peers for Quay County

Cross-state counties nearest Quay County on flagged-system share (90.0%) and cumulative violation count (569). 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.

4 peers

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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