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Lea County, NM drinking water systems

9 community water systems serve Lea County, NM, reporting 65,382 people served in all.

8 of them had at least one health-based violation in the last 10 years. 3 systems still have one unresolved.

9 rely mainly on groundwater, counting water bought from other systems.

5 systems filed a lead service line inventory listing 4 lead lines, 170 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 4,646 lines of unknown material.

1 more system is placed in Lea County, NM by the county its records name because it has no service area map that lines up with its own records, so it is listed apart and not counted here.

Community water systems
9
People served, sum of each system's own figure
65,382
Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years
8
Systems with one unresolved
3
Lead service lines in inventories
4

Water systems serving Lea County

9 systems

People served is each system's own figure for its whole service area. Violation counts cover the last 10 years of EPA records.

System Serves People served Main source Health-based violations, 10 years Unresolved Lead lines
Hobbs Municipal Water Supply Hobbs and North Hobbs 40,418 Groundwater 0 0 No inventory
Lovington Municipal Water Supply Lovington 13,539 Groundwater 9 0 4
Jal Water Supply System Jal 5,500 Groundwater 5 1 0
Eunice Water Supply System Eunice 4,487 Groundwater 1 0 0
Tatum Municipal Water System Tatum 948 Groundwater 1 0 No inventory
Monument MDWCA Monument 279 Groundwater 2 0 0
Adobe Village North Hobbs and Hobbs 83 Groundwater 5 2 No inventory
Mescalero Ridge Water Co-Op Outside cities and towns 76 Purchased groundwater 6 0 0
Monarchy Country Estates North Hobbs and Hobbs 52 Groundwater 6 5 No inventory

Systems placed by county record in Lea County

1 system

EPA has no service area map for this system. It is placed by the county its records name (the counties EPA lists it serving, or the county coded in its ID where EPA lists none), and without a map it is not counted in the figures above.

System Serves People served Main source Health-based violations, 10 years Unresolved Lead lines
Morwest Corporation County on record Not reported Groundwater 0 0 0

Cities and towns in Lea County

7 places

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Counties come from the counties EPA lists each system serving, matched to 2024 Census counties; where EPA lists none, from the county coded in the system's ID, its service area map, or its mailing address. A county holding at least a fifth of a system's service area map is added when at least a fifth of that map lies in those counties. Towns are the ones EPA lists and the Census places such a map covers, always inside those counties. In New England, where EPA's town names a whole Town, it is not matched to the village of the same name. A system is not listed in a county holding less than a fifth of its map, or in a county or town its map reaches when the map lies mostly outside the counties EPA lists, so a page can leave out a system that serves part of the area. Methodology and limitations