Community Water System · PWS NM3573627
Elephant Butte, City Of
Operator location Elephant Butte, New Mexico - 8% of 49 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); groundwater source; 1,350 served per SDWIS.
- 1,350
- People served (this PWS)
- 49
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 4
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Elephant Butte, City Of standing, mid SDWIS violation third
8% of 49 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 8% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #16,860 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Elephant Butte, City Of lands in the middle third by violation volume (49), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,350 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 8% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #16,860 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #130 of 215
- Population · NM
- 49
- Total EPA violations on record
- 8%
- 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
- 634
- County
- Sierra
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 4
- Monitoring Violations
- 38
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | MR | 12 | 2018 |
| Chlorine | MR | 8 | 2022 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 8 | 2018 |
| Public Notice | Other | 5 | 2023 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 4 | 2013 |
| E. COLI | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| Arsenic | MCL | 3 | 2008 |
| Asbestos | MR | 2 | 2002 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 2 | 2021 |
| Fluoride | MCL | 1 | 1984 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Elephant Butte, City Of has 49 recorded EPA violations, 56% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 44% carry more. 8% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 49), and it ranks #16,860 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)
49 Around the middle fewer violations than 44% 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 Elephant Butte, City Of
4 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for NM3573627.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
49 violations · 1,350 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 near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Elephant Butte, City Of
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