Bearcat Homeowners Association, NM
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2016-2016). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Bearcat Homeowners Association serves about 60 people through 27 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Bernalillo County, New Mexico. EPA system ID: NM3500101; phone on file: 505-524-6730. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 26 ppb from 28 ppb in the period ending 2016. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bearcat Homeowners Association is 28 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 28 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
Against other New Mexico systems
Of the 504 New Mexico systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1.4 ppb; 14 are over 15 ppb right now and 46 have gone over at some point. Bearcat Homeowners Association's 2 ppb sits at the 58th percentile in New Mexico and the 70th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
41 other systems share Bernalillo County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bearcat Homeowners Association. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Albuquerque Water System | 560,326 | 0 (not detected) |
| University Of New Mexico | 35,000 | 1.1 ppb |
| Kirtland Air Force Base | 22,500 | 2.3 ppb |
| Sandia Peak Utility | 6,079 | 2.8 ppb |
| Tierra West Estates Mhp | 1,447 | 1 ppb |
| Sandia Knolls Water System | 1,098 | 1.1 ppb |
| Tranquillo Pines Mdwca | 814 | 3.3 ppb |
| Coronado Village Country Club | 802 | 2.1 ppb |
| Tijeras (Village Of) | 541 | 1 ppb |
| South Hills Water Company | 506 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Tijeras, NM may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Bearcat Homeowners Association whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. More in what a past exceedance means today.