Community Water System · PWS NM3523402
Reserve Water Works
Operator location Reserve, New Mexico - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 601 people served; 51 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 601
- People served (this PWS)
- 51
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 10
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Reserve Water Works standing, mid SDWIS violation third
601 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 20% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #26,114 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Reserve Water Works 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 (601; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 20% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #26,114 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #195 of 215
- Population · NM
- 51
- Total EPA violations on record
- 20%
- 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
- 265
- County
- Catron
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 32
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 10
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chlorine | MR | 12 | 2019 |
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 10 | 2021 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 6 | 2022 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 5 | 2022 |
| TTHM | MR | 4 | 2014 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 4 | 2019 |
| Public Notice | Other | 4 | 2025 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 4 | 2014 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 2 | 1996 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Reserve Water Works has 51 recorded EPA violations, 57% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 43% carry more. 20% of this system's own violations are health-based (10 of 51), and it ranks #26,114 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)
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
Population served record for Reserve Water Works
EPA SDWIS lists 601 people served and 265 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
51 violations · 601 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.
Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Reserve Water Works
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
- Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
- Find and compare another public water system by name or PWSID. Search systems
EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.