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Otero County, NM drinking water systems

42 community water systems serve Otero County, NM, reporting 85,606 people served in all. A system that also serves other counties counts all of its customers here.

26 of them (62%) had at least one health-based violation in the last 10 years. 14 systems still have one unresolved.

39 rely mainly on groundwater and 3 on surface water, counting water bought from other systems.

38 systems filed a lead service line inventory listing 0 lead lines, 1 galvanized line that must be replaced and 4,971 lines of unknown material.

4 more systems are placed in Otero County, NM by the county their records name because they have no service area map that lines up with their own records, so they are listed apart and not counted here.

Community water systems
42
People served, sum of each system's own figure
85,606
Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years
26
Systems with one unresolved
14
Lead service lines in inventories
0

Water systems serving Otero County

42 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
Alamogordo Domestic Water System Alamogordo 35,301 Surface water 0 0 0
Lake Section Water Company Chaparral 14,619 Groundwater 2 2 0
Holloman Air Force Base Holloman AFB 13,000 Groundwater 0 0 0
Tularosa Water System Tularosa 3,485 Surface water 10 5 0
Cloudcroft Water System Cloudcroft 2,865 Groundwater 1 0 0
Timberon W and SD Timberon 2,698 Groundwater 6 0 0
Mescalero Community Mescalero 1,961 Groundwater 1 0 0
La Luz MDWCA La Luz 1,917 Surface water 0 0 0
Twin Forks MDWCA Twin Forks and Mayhill and land outside them 1,274 Groundwater 0 1 0
Mescalero Carrizo Outside cities and towns 951 Groundwater 2 0 0
Mescalero Goat Summit Outside cities and towns 845 Groundwater 2 0 0
Mescalero Windmill Outside cities and towns 750 Groundwater 2 0 0
Cloud Country West Water System Alamogordo and land outside it 684 Groundwater 0 0 0
Boles Acres Water System Boles Acres and Alamogordo 657 Groundwater 0 0 0
Eileen Acres MDWCA La Luz and Alamogordo 457 Groundwater 0 0 0
Robinhood Water Users Association Twin Forks and Cloudcroft 426 Groundwater 1 0 0
High Rolls Community Water Users Coop High Rolls 364 Groundwater 10 4 No inventory
Cloud Country Estates WUA Mayhill and land outside it 356 Groundwater 0 0 0
Waterfall Community WUA Cloudcroft and land outside it 342 Groundwater 0 0 0
Pineywoods Estates Water Association High Rolls and land outside it 320 Groundwater 0 0 0
Chalet Camper Village Cloudcroft and land outside it 226 Groundwater 2 6 0
Pinon MDWCA Pinon 215 Groundwater 0 1 No inventory
Silver Cloud Water Association Cloudcroft and land outside it 205 Groundwater 0 0 0
Chippeway Park Water Association Cloudcroft and land outside it 193 Groundwater 17 1 0
Mescalero Fence Canyon High Rolls 173 Groundwater 2 0 0
Ponderosa Pines Property Owners Assoc Cloudcroft and land outside it 147 Groundwater 6 2 0
Mayhill MDWCA Mayhill 143 Groundwater 12 1 0
Karr Canyon Estates High Rolls 108 Groundwater 3 0 0
Mountain Orchard MDWCA High Rolls 105 Groundwater 3 1 0
Orogrande MDWCA Orogrande 92 Purchased groundwater 0 0 0
Pete Ragan Memorial WUA Mayhill and land outside it 82 Groundwater 3 0 0
Weed Water Users Association Weed 81 Groundwater 0 0 0
Cider Mill Farms MDWCA High Rolls 76 Groundwater 0 0 0
Juniper Mobile Park High Rolls 75 Groundwater 4 0 0
Sky Country Estates MDWCA High Rolls and Cloudcroft 71 Groundwater 2 1 0
Laborcita Water Users Association La Luz and land outside it 70 Groundwater 0 0 0
Dungan MDWCA Alamogordo and land outside it 64 Groundwater 10 0 0
Rolling Hills WUA La Luz and land outside it 57 Groundwater 2 0 0
Alamo Heights WUA Alamogordo and land outside it 52 Groundwater 5 2 No inventory
Enchanted Valley WUA Alamogordo and land outside it 41 Groundwater 4 12 No inventory
Canyon Hills Area WUA Alamogordo and land outside it 32 Groundwater 6 0 0
National Solar Observatory Outside cities and towns 26 Groundwater 1 1 0

Systems placed by county record in Otero County

4 systems

EPA has no service area map for these systems. They are placed by the county their records name (the counties EPA lists them serving, or the county coded in their IDs where EPA lists none), and without a map they are not counted in the figures above.

System Serves People served Main source Health-based violations, 10 years Unresolved Lead lines
Mescalero Inn of the Mt. Gods County on record 14,542 Groundwater 0 0 0
Mescalero Eight Canyon County on record 333 Groundwater 1 0 0
Mescalero Nogal Canyon County on record 33 Groundwater 3 0 0
Mescalero Whitetail County on record 25 Groundwater 3 0 0

Cities and towns in Otero County

14 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