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County drinking water records

Taos County, NM drinking water systems

43 community water systems serve Taos County, NM, reporting 19,795 people served in all. A system that also serves other counties counts all of its customers here.

34 of them (79%) had at least one health-based violation in the last 10 years. 16 systems still have one unresolved.

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

28 systems filed a lead service line inventory listing 7 lead lines, 50 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 3,572 lines of unknown material.

2 more systems are placed in Taos 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
43
People served, sum of each system's own figure
19,795
Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years
34
Systems with one unresolved
16
Lead service lines in inventories
7

Water systems serving Taos County

43 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
Taos Municipal Water System Taos 5,528 Groundwater 0 0 0
Questa Water System Questa 2,337 Groundwater 3 0 1
El Prado Water & Sanitation District Outside cities and towns 1,076 Groundwater 3 0 0
Village of Taos Ski Valley Taos Ski Valley 1,025 Groundwater 3 0 0
Llano Quemado MDWCA Ranchos de Taos and land outside it 800 Groundwater 1 0 0
Ranchos De Taos MDWCA Ranchos de Taos 750 Groundwater 29 14 No inventory
Talpa MDWCA Talpa and Taos 700 Groundwater 9 0 5
Red River Water System Red River 679 Groundwater 1 0 0
Chamisal MDWCA Chamisal 550 Groundwater 1 0 1
Penasco MDWCA Peñasco 549 Groundwater 4 0 No inventory
Arroyo Seco MDWCA Arroyo Seco 444 Groundwater 1 0 0
Union Del Llano MDWCA Outside cities and towns 400 Groundwater 6 1 0
Valle Escondido Homeowners Association Taos and land outside it 354 Groundwater 0 0 0
Tres Piedras MDWCA Outside cities and towns 350 Groundwater 2 2 No inventory
Rio Lucio MDWCA Rio Lucio and Peñasco 342 Groundwater 6 0 No inventory
Lower Des Montes MDWCA Arroyo Seco and Arroyo Hondo 319 Groundwater 2 1 0
Costilla MDWCA Costilla 244 Groundwater 8 9 No inventory
El Salto MDWCA and Sa Arroyo Seco 232 Groundwater 0 1 0
Cerro Regional MDWCA/Swa Outside cities and towns 232 Groundwater 7 0 0
Ojo Caliente MDWCA Ojo Caliente 226 Groundwater 28 2 No inventory
Upper Des Montes MDWCA Arroyo Seco 222 Groundwater 1 0 0
Upper Ranchitos Mdwcasw Taos and land outside it 222 Groundwater 7 2 No inventory
Canon MDWCA Outside cities and towns 200 Groundwater 5 6 No inventory
Upper Arroyo Hondo MDWCA Arroyo Hondo 195 Groundwater 7 6 No inventory
Lower Arroyo Hondo MDWCA Arroyo Hondo 180 Groundwater 2 0 0
San Cristobal MDWCA San Cristobal 165 Groundwater 0 0 0
Enchanted Mobile Home Park Taos 150 Groundwater 12 0 0
Trampas MDWCA Outside cities and towns 132 Groundwater 27 0 0
Picuris Pueblo Outside cities and towns 120 Groundwater 0 0 0
Rodarte MDWCA Outside cities and towns 115 Groundwater 3 0 0
West Rim Mdwua Taos and land outside it 113 Groundwater 1 1 0
Vadito MDWCA Vadito 111 Groundwater 10 0 No inventory
Vigils Trailer Park Taos 105 Groundwater 0 0 0
Valdez MDWCA Outside cities and towns 100 Groundwater 0 0 0
La Lomita Trailer Park Taos 97 Groundwater 4 4 0
Sanchez Mobile Home Park Outside cities and towns 80 Groundwater 6 6 No inventory
El Rancho MHP Taos Outside cities and towns 72 Groundwater 12 2 No inventory
Las Haciendas Homeowners WUA Taos and land outside it 72 Groundwater 0 0 No inventory
Las Colonias MHP Outside cities and towns 49 Groundwater 5 0 0
El Valle De Los Ranchos W & SD Ranchos de Taos and land outside it 48 Purchased groundwater 0 0 0
La Lama MDWCA Questa and land outside it 45 Groundwater 2 0 0
Eagle Rock Village Questa 35 Groundwater 7 12 No inventory
BMG Trailer Park Ranchos de Taos 30 Groundwater 22 18 No inventory

Systems placed by county record in Taos County

2 systems

The service area maps EPA has for these systems do not line up with their own records. 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
Taos Pueblo County on record 2,652 Groundwater 0 0 0
Duranes Y Gavilan MDWCA County on record 215 Groundwater 2 3 No inventory

Cities and towns in Taos County

15 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