Community Water System · PWS NM3520508
Riverside Mdwa
Operator location Artesia, New Mexico - 28% of 228 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 227 served per SDWIS.
- 227
- People served (this PWS)
- 228
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 64
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Riverside Mdwa standing, high SDWIS violation third
28% of 228 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 28% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Riverside Mdwa sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (228), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (227; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 28% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 228
- Total EPA violations on record
- 28%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 227
- 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
- 85
- County
- Eddy
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 55
- Monitoring Violations
- 100
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 9
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 55 | 2014 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 46 | 2014 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 23 | 2014 |
| E. COLI | MR | 20 | 2014 |
| Public Notice | Other | 13 | 2025 |
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 9 | 2015 |
| Chlorine | MR | 7 | 2020 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 7 | 2018 |
| TTHM | MR | 7 | 2018 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 7 | 2022 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 3 | 2020 |
| Asbestos | MR | 2 | 2002 |
| Fluoride | MR | 1 | 1980 |
| Coliform (Pre-TCR) | Other | 1 | 1990 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Riverside Mdwa has 228 recorded EPA violations, 87% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 13% carry more. 28% of this system's own violations are health-based (64 of 228), 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)
228 Higher than most more violations than 87% 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 Riverside Mdwa
64 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for NM3520508.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
228 violations · 227 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 Riverside Mdwa
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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