UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO: EPA violation history, explained
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. Population served: 35,000, over 97 connections.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO's record against the rest of the country
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO has 63 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,367th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 43th percentile nationally.
How UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO compares within NM
Among the 102 NM systems in this dataset, the average is 13.9 health-based violations - UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO's 1 is at or below that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO is from 2028-04-02 (health-based: 2025-05-10). Last reported to EPA: 06/16/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO'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
This is what UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO 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 - 1 health-based violation on file for UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO - 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.