Community Water System · PWS NM3572926
Santa Cruz Water Association
Operator location Santa Cruz, New Mexico - 44% of 1,003 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 394 served per SDWIS.
- 394
- People served (this PWS)
- 1,003
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 437
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Santa Cruz Water Association standing, high SDWIS violation third
44% of 1,003 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 44% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Santa Cruz Water Association sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (1,003), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (394; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 44% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 1,003
- Total EPA violations on record
- 44%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 394
- 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
- 167
- County
- Santa Fe
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 339
- Monitoring Violations
- 417
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 98
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Combined Uranium | MCL | 335 | 2025 |
| Chlorine | MR | 111 | 2021 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 98 | 2021 |
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 96 | 2022 |
| Public Notice | Other | 89 | 2023 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 37 | 2025 |
| Nitrate-Nitrite | MR | 10 | 2007 |
| Groundwater Rule | Other | 9 | 2022 |
| Fluoride | MR | 7 | 2005 |
| Arsenic | MR | 7 | 2005 |
| Barium | MR | 7 | 2005 |
| Cadmium | MR | 7 | 2005 |
| Chromium | MR | 7 | 2005 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 7 | 2005 |
| Selenium | MR | 7 | 2005 |
| Mercury | MR | 7 | 2005 |
| Nickel | MR | 7 | 2005 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 7 | 2005 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 7 | 2005 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 7 | 2021 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 6 | 2013 |
| CYANIDE | MR | 4 | 2005 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 4 | 2013 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | Other | 4 | 2016 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 3 | 2018 |
| TTHM | MR | 3 | 2018 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 2 | 2005 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 2 | 2005 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 2 | 2005 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 2 | 2005 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Santa Cruz Water Association has 1,003 recorded EPA violations, 99% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 1% carry more. 44% of this system's own violations are health-based (437 of 1,003), 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)
1,003 Higher than most more violations than 99% 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 Santa Cruz Water Association
437 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for NM3572926.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
1,003 violations · 394 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 Santa Cruz Water Association
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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