Community Water System · PWS NM3520003
Lake Arthur Water Department
Operator location Lake Arthur, New Mexico - 25% of 51 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 374 served per SDWIS.
- 374
- People served (this PWS)
- 51
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 13
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Lake Arthur Water Department standing, mid SDWIS violation third
25% of 51 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 25% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Lake Arthur Water Department lands in the middle third by violation volume (51), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (374; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 25% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 51
- Total EPA violations on record
- 25%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 374
- 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
- 202
- County
- Chaves
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 6
- Monitoring Violations
- 22
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 7
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 12 | 2021 |
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 7 | 2017 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 6 | 2007 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 4 | 2018 |
| TTHM | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| Asbestos | MR | 2 | 2002 |
| Public Notice | Other | 1 | 2005 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Lake Arthur Water Department has 51 recorded EPA violations, 57% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 43% carry more. 25% of this system's own violations are health-based (13 of 51), 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)
51 Around the middle fewer violations than 43% 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 Lake Arthur Water Department
13 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for NM3520003.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
51 violations · 374 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
What to do with Lake Arthur Water Department
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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