Community Water System · PWS NM3508717
Ramah Water & Sanitation District
Operator location Ramah, New Mexico - 32% of 351 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 517 served per SDWIS.
- 517
- People served (this PWS)
- 351
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 114
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Ramah Water & Sanitation District standing, high SDWIS violation third
32% of 351 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 32% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #28,220 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Ramah Water & Sanitation District sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (351), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (517; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 32% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #28,220 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #211 of 215
- Population · NM
- 351
- Total EPA violations on record
- 32%
- 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
- Local
- Connections
- 152
- County
- McKinley
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 44
- Monitoring Violations
- 129
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 70
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 70 | 2018 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 47 | 2016 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 44 | 2016 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 44 | 2024 |
| Public Notice | Other | 36 | 2019 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 36 | 2018 |
| E. COLI | MR | 30 | 2016 |
| Coliform (TCR) | Other | 4 | 2003 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | Other | 4 | 2016 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Combined Uranium | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Gross Beta Particle Activity | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Radium-226 | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Radium-228 | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Nitrate | MR | 1 | 1983 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Ramah Water & Sanitation District has 351 recorded EPA violations, 93% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 7% carry more. 32% of this system's own violations are health-based (114 of 351), and it ranks #28,220 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)
351 Higher than most more violations than 93% 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 Ramah Water & Sanitation District
114 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for NM3508717.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
351 violations · 517 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 Ramah Water & Sanitation District
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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