Community Water System · PWS NM3503321
Tierra Amarilla Mdwca
Operator location Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico - 27% of 199 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 470 served per SDWIS.
- 470
- People served (this PWS)
- 199
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 53
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Tierra Amarilla Mdwca standing, high SDWIS violation third
27% of 199 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 27% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Tierra Amarilla Mdwca sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (199), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (470; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 27% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 199
- Total EPA violations on record
- 27%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 470
- 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
- Local
- Connections
- 134
- County
- Rio Arriba
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 69
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 53
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 49 | 2023 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 40 | 2024 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 23 | 2018 |
| TTHM | MR | 20 | 2016 |
| Public Notice | Other | 19 | 2021 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 14 | 2017 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 12 | 2016 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | Other | 3 | 2016 |
| Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule | TT | 2 | 2010 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | RPT | 2 | 2024 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | TT | 2 | 2024 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Tierra Amarilla Mdwca has 199 recorded EPA violations, 85% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 15% carry more. 27% of this system's own violations are health-based (53 of 199), 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)
199 Higher than most more violations than 85% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Health-based violations on Tierra Amarilla Mdwca
53 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for NM3503321.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
199 violations · 470 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.
What to do with Tierra Amarilla Mdwca
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
- See how every tracked system in New Mexico compares on the same EPA violation measures. New Mexico systems
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