Is LOWER RIO GRANDE PWWA SOUTH VALLEY's water safe to drink?
LOWER RIO GRANDE PWWA SOUTH VALLEY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 11,542 people through 4,405 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
18 total violations and 14 health-based ones put LOWER RIO GRANDE PWWA SOUTH VALLEY at the 89th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 1,398 of 12,903.
Against the NM average
LOWER RIO GRANDE PWWA SOUTH VALLEY's 14 health-based violations sit above the NM average of 13.9, across 102 systems statewide. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
LOWER RIO GRANDE PWWA SOUTH VALLEY's most recent violation on record is dated 2013-01-04, with the most recent health-based one dated 2013-01-04. Last reported to EPA: 06/16/2026.
The concern categories on record
LOWER RIO GRANDE PWWA SOUTH VALLEY'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:
- Other regulated metals - flagged from: Arsenic
The most severe category on record is other regulated metals, which points toward a reverse osmosis-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What LOWER RIO GRANDE PWWA SOUTH VALLEY's record does not cover
This is what LOWER RIO GRANDE PWWA SOUTH VALLEY reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. This record - 14 health-based violations on file for LOWER RIO GRANDE PWWA SOUTH VALLEY - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.