Community Water System · PWS NM3522812
Lordsburg Water Supply System
Operator location Lordsburg, New Mexico - 78% of 797 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 3,213 served per SDWIS.
- 3,213
- People served (this PWS)
- 797
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 618
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Lordsburg Water Supply System standing, high SDWIS violation third
78% of 797 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 78% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #10,124 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Lordsburg Water Supply System sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (797), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 3,213 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 78% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #10,124 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #69 of 215
- Population · NM
- 797
- Total EPA violations on record
- 78%
- 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
- 1,226
- County
- Hidalgo
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 528
- Monitoring Violations
- 65
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 90
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fluoride | MCL | 441 | 2025 |
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 87 | 2023 |
| Public Notice | Other | 66 | 2025 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 53 | 2006 |
| Combined Uranium | MCL | 24 | 2012 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 20 | 2015 |
| TTHM | MR | 14 | 2017 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 14 | 2017 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 12 | 2017 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MCL | 10 | 2006 |
| Groundwater Rule | Other | 9 | 2020 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 8 | 2015 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | Other | 4 | 2016 |
| E. COLI | MR | 4 | 2015 |
| Chlorine | MR | 3 | 2015 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | TT | 3 | 2024 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | RPT | 3 | 2024 |
| Asbestos | MR | 2 | 2002 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Lordsburg Water Supply System has 797 recorded EPA violations, 98% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 2% carry more. 78% of this system's own violations are health-based (618 of 797), and it ranks #10,124 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)
797 Higher than most more violations than 98% 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 Lordsburg Water Supply System
618 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for NM3522812.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
797 violations · 3,213 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 Lordsburg Water Supply System
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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