Community Water System · PWS NM3508817
Thoreau Water & Sanitation District
Operator location Thoreau, New Mexico - 26% of 117 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,173 served per SDWIS.
- 1,173
- People served (this PWS)
- 117
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 31
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Thoreau Water & Sanitation District standing, high SDWIS violation third
26% of 117 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 26% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #18,118 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Thoreau Water & Sanitation District sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (117), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,173 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 26% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #18,118 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #142 of 215
- Population · NM
- 117
- Total EPA violations on record
- 26%
- 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
- 345
- County
- McKinley
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 22
- Monitoring Violations
- 65
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 9
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chlorine | MR | 27 | 2019 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MCL | 15 | 2014 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 12 | 2015 |
| TTHM | MR | 12 | 2015 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 7 | 2024 |
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 6 | 2024 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 6 | 2024 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 4 | 2006 |
| Asbestos | MR | 4 | 2011 |
| E. COLI | MR | 4 | 2017 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | TT | 3 | 2024 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | RPT | 3 | 2024 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MCL | 3 | 1986 |
| Groundwater Rule | Other | 3 | 2024 |
| Public Notice | Other | 1 | 2016 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Thoreau Water & Sanitation District has 117 recorded EPA violations, 76% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 24% carry more. 26% of this system's own violations are health-based (31 of 117), and it ranks #18,118 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)
117 Higher than most more violations than 76% 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 Thoreau Water & Sanitation District
31 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for NM3508817.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
117 violations · 1,173 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 near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Thoreau Water & Sanitation District
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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