Is Jemez Pueblo's water safe to drink?
Jemez Pueblo had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. It serves 3,200 people through 600 service connections.
Jemez Pueblo's record against the rest of the country
42 total violations and 14 health-based ones put Jemez Pueblo at the 90th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 1,341 of 12,903.
How Jemez Pueblo compares within NM
Among the 102 NM systems in this dataset, the average is 13.9 health-based violations - Jemez Pueblo's 14 is above that. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for Jemez Pueblo is from 2024-01-07 (health-based: 2024-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 06/29/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
Jemez Pueblo's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
- Other regulated metals - flagged from: Arsenic
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM
The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
Everything on this page is Jemez Pueblo's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and Jemez Pueblo's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 1,341th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.