Community Water System · PWS NM3500123
La Mesa Water Coop
Operator location Placitas, New Mexico - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 650 people served; 275 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 650
- People served (this PWS)
- 275
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 4
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
La Mesa Water Coop standing, high SDWIS violation third
650 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 1% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #25,302 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
La Mesa Water Coop sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (275), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (650; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 1% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #25,302 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #186 of 215
- Population · NM
- 275
- Total EPA violations on record
- 1%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Private
- Connections
- 330
- County
- Sandoval
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 4
- Monitoring Violations
- 266
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Endrin | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Dalapon | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Glyphosate | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Simazine | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Pentachlorophenol | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Chlordane | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Heptachlor | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| OXAMYL | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| HEXACHLOROBENZENE | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| 1,2-DIBROMO-3-CHLOROPROPANE | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| LASSO | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Heptachlor epoxide | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Endothall | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Dinoseb | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Atrazine | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Picloram | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Carbofuran | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Diquat | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 4 | 2015 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
La Mesa Water Coop has 275 recorded EPA violations, 90% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 10% carry more. 1% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 275), and it ranks #25,302 of 29,740 by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
275 Higher than most more violations than 90% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Population served record for La Mesa Water Coop
EPA SDWIS lists 650 people served and 330 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
275 violations · 650 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with comparable violation load
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with La Mesa Water Coop
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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