Community Water System · PWS NM3574729
Lower Des Montes Mdwca
Operator location Arroyo Seco, New Mexico - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 319 people served; 172 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 319
- People served (this PWS)
- 172
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 14
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Lower Des Montes Mdwca standing, high SDWIS violation third
319 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 8% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Lower Des Montes Mdwca sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (172), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (319; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 8% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 172
- Total EPA violations on record
- 8%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 319
- 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
- 112
- County
- Taos
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 7
- Monitoring Violations
- 88
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 7
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 49 | 2012 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 24 | 2023 |
| Coliform (TCR) | Other | 17 | 1996 |
| TTHM | MR | 8 | 2019 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 8 | 2019 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 8 | 2022 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 7 | 1997 |
| Chlorine | MR | 7 | 2022 |
| Nitrate-Nitrite | MR | 4 | 2005 |
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 4 | 2014 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | TT | 3 | 2024 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | RPT | 3 | 2024 |
| Public Notice | Other | 2 | 2015 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Lower Des Montes Mdwca has 172 recorded EPA violations, 83% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 17% carry more. 8% of this system's own violations are health-based (14 of 172), 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)
172 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 Lower Des Montes Mdwca
EPA SDWIS lists 319 people served and 112 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
172 violations · 319 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 Lower Des Montes Mdwca
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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