Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS NM3580523
Placitas Elementary School
Operator location Bernalillo, New Mexico - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 121 people served; 326 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 121
- People served (this PWS)
- 326
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 14
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Placitas Elementary School standing, high SDWIS violation third
121 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 4% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Placitas Elementary School sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (326), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (121; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 4% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 326
- Total EPA violations on record
- 4%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 121
- 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
- Non-Transient Non-Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 1
- County
- Sandoval
- School/Daycare
- Yes
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 286
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 14
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 32 | 2015 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 24 | 2016 |
| TTHM | MR | 19 | 2017 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 19 | 2017 |
| Public Notice | Other | 16 | 2020 |
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 9 | 2019 |
| Chlorine | MR | 8 | 2016 |
| E. COLI | MR | 7 | 2015 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Diquat | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Simazine | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Chlordane | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Endothall | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Dinoseb | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Heptachlor | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| HEXACHLOROBENZENE | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Carbofuran | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Heptachlor epoxide | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Glyphosate | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| OXAMYL | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Atrazine | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| 1,2-DIBROMO-3-CHLOROPROPANE | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE | MR | 6 | 1995 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Placitas Elementary School has 326 recorded EPA violations, 92% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 8% carry more. 4% of this system's own violations are health-based (14 of 326), 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)
326 Higher than most more violations than 92% 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 Placitas Elementary School
EPA SDWIS lists 121 people served and 1 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
326 violations · 121 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 Placitas Elementary School
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