Community Water System · PWS NM3533526
Cuatro Villas Mdwca
Operator location Santa Cruz, New Mexico - 62% of 346 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 420 served per SDWIS.
- 420
- People served (this PWS)
- 346
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 215
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Cuatro Villas Mdwca standing, high SDWIS violation third
62% of 346 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 62% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Cuatro Villas Mdwca sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (346), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (420; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 62% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 346
- Total EPA violations on record
- 62%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 420
- 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
- 143
- County
- Santa Fe
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 209
- Monitoring Violations
- 57
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 6
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MCL | 114 | 2009 |
| Combined Uranium | MCL | 91 | 2009 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 50 | 2025 |
| Public Notice | Other | 19 | 2022 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 14 | 1998 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 13 | 2018 |
| Combined Uranium | MR | 6 | 2007 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 5 | 2007 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 4 | 2001 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 4 | 2021 |
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 4 | 2020 |
| Chlorine | MR | 3 | 2021 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | TT | 2 | 2024 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | RPT | 2 | 2024 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 2 | 2009 |
| Asbestos | MR | 2 | 2020 |
| Fluoride | MR | 1 | 1981 |
| Chromium | MR | 1 | 1981 |
| Arsenic | MR | 1 | 1981 |
| Barium | MR | 1 | 1981 |
| Mercury | MR | 1 | 1981 |
| Selenium | MR | 1 | 1981 |
| Nitrate | MR | 1 | 1981 |
| Cadmium | MR | 1 | 1981 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Cuatro Villas Mdwca has 346 recorded EPA violations, 92% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 8% carry more. 62% of this system's own violations are health-based (215 of 346), 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)
346 Higher than most more violations than 92% 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 Cuatro Villas Mdwca
215 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for NM3533526.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
346 violations · 420 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 Cuatro Villas Mdwca
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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