Community Water System · PWS NM3533814
Sun Valley Water and Sanitation District
Operator location Alto, New Mexico - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 443 people served; 98 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 443
- People served (this PWS)
- 98
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 5
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Sun Valley Water and Sanitation District standing, high SDWIS violation third
443 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 5% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Sun Valley Water and Sanitation District sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (98), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (443; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 5% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 98
- Total EPA violations on record
- 5%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 443
- 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
- 207
- County
- Lincoln
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 5
- Monitoring Violations
- 61
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chlorine | MR | 12 | 2021 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 11 | 1997 |
| E. COLI | MR | 8 | 2018 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 8 | 2014 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 8 | 2016 |
| TTHM | MR | 8 | 2014 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 6 | 2022 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 6 | 2020 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 5 | 1991 |
| Public Notice | Other | 4 | 2017 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | Other | 4 | 2016 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Sun Valley Water and Sanitation District has 98 recorded EPA violations, 73% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 27% carry more. 5% of this system's own violations are health-based (5 of 98), 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)
98 Around the middle fewer violations than 27% 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 Sun Valley Water and Sanitation District
EPA SDWIS lists 443 people served and 207 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
98 violations · 443 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 Sun Valley Water and Sanitation District
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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