SANTA FE COUNTY SOUTH SECTOR: EPA violation history, explained
SANTA FE COUNTY SOUTH SECTOR had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. 6,775 people get their water from it, across 2,670 connections.
SANTA FE COUNTY SOUTH SECTOR's record against the rest of the country
SANTA FE COUNTY SOUTH SECTOR has 29 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,674th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 41th percentile nationally.
How SANTA FE COUNTY SOUTH SECTOR compares within NM
Among the 102 NM systems in this dataset, the average is 13.9 health-based violations - SANTA FE COUNTY SOUTH SECTOR's 1 is at or below 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 SANTA FE COUNTY SOUTH SECTOR is from 2025-05-10 (health-based: 2025-05-10). Last reported to EPA: 06/16/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
SANTA FE COUNTY SOUTH SECTOR'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:
- Lead & copper - flagged from: LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS
The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
Everything on this page is SANTA FE COUNTY SOUTH SECTOR'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 SANTA FE COUNTY SOUTH SECTOR's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,674th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.