Community Water System · PWS NM3546930
Indian Hills Water System
Operator location Elephant Butte, New Mexico - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 715 people served; 169 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 715
- People served (this PWS)
- 169
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 26
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Indian Hills Water System standing, high SDWIS violation third
715 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 15% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #24,039 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Indian Hills Water System sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (169), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (715; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 15% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #24,039 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #176 of 215
- Population · NM
- 169
- Total EPA violations on record
- 15%
- 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
- Private
- Connections
- 271
- County
- Torrance
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 26
- Monitoring Violations
- 80
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 36 | 2007 |
| Chlorine | MR | 34 | 2021 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 27 | 2010 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 26 | 2001 |
| Public Notice | Other | 12 | 2013 |
| Coliform (TCR) | Other | 10 | 2002 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 6 | 2011 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 4 | 1988 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Indian Hills Water System has 169 recorded EPA violations, 83% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 17% carry more. 15% of this system's own violations are health-based (26 of 169), and it ranks #24,039 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)
169 Higher than most more violations than 83% 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 Indian Hills Water System
EPA SDWIS lists 715 people served and 271 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
169 violations · 715 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 with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Indian Hills Water System
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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