New Mexico

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EPA Safe Drinking Water Act

  • Public Drinking Water Systems

    1,058

  • Community Water Systems

    563

  • Systems with Violations

    261

  • Systems with Health Based Violations

    1

  • Systems Listed as Serious Violators

    115

  • Unresolved SDWA Violations

    1,280

  • Oldest Unresolved Violation

    11/19/2002

  • Population Served

    2,116,379

EPA National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

  • CWA Percent Non-Compliant

    1.18%

  • CWA Non-Compliant Systems

    160

  • CWA Total Violations

    520

The American Community Survey

  • HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    8,188

  • PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES

    1.01%

  • TOTAL POPULATION

    2,112,463

  • MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    $58,722

  • PERCENTAGE OF FAMILIES BELOW POVERTY LEVEL (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    7.7%

  • MALE

    1,052,858

  • FEMALE

    1,059,605

  • MEDIAN AGE

    38.6

  • MULTIRACIAL

    1,060,837

  • WHITE

    752,424

  • AFRICAN AMERICAN

    37,996

  • LATINO

    1,051,626

  • ASIAN

    34,400

  • AMERICAN INDIAN

    178,608

  • NATIVE PACIFIC ISLANDER

    1,117

To learn more about individual water systems and violations please visit the echo.epa.gov interactive map for this state here: https://echo.epa.gov/facilities/facility-search/results?p_st=NM Other .gov state water resources: https://waterdata.usgs.gov/state/new-mexico/#dataTypes=all Additional state water resources:https://newmexicowaterdata.org/https://mainstreamnm.org/data-and-reports/https://nm.waterstar.org/

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