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Community Water System · PWS 063506233

Mescalero Fence Canyon

EPA Region 6 — Tribal Water Systems - 57% of 42 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 173 served per SDWIS.

173
People served (this PWS)
42
EPA violations (this PWS)
24
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Mescalero Fence Canyon standing, mid SDWIS violation third

57% of 42 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 57% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

Mescalero Fence Canyon lands in the middle third by violation volume (42), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (173; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 57% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

42
Total EPA violations on record
57%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
173
People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
N/A
PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)

Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.

System Details

System Type
Community
Owner Type
Native American
Connections
41
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
2
Monitoring Violations
13
Treatment Tech Violations
22

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Groundwater Rule TT 19 2018
Coliform (TCR) MR 11 2003
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 5 2004
Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule TT 3 2007
Coliform (TCR) MCL 2 2003
TTHM MR 1 2008
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 1 2008

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Mescalero Fence Canyon has 42 recorded EPA violations, 52% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 48% carry more. 57% of this system's own violations are health-based (24 of 42), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.

EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus

Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)

42 Around the middle fewer violations than 48% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more water systems. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Health-based violations on Mescalero Fence Canyon

24 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for 063506233.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

42 violations · 173 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Mescalero Fence Canyon

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

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