Bishops Lodge, NM
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.8 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
About Bishops Lodge
Bishops Lodge serves about 450 people through 60 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Santa Fe County, New Mexico. EPA system ID: NM3593226; phone on file: 970-708-3947. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Bishops Lodge's lead record
That is down 58.2 ppb from 60 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bishops Lodge is 60 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2023 | 60 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 6 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Bishops Lodge's 1.8 ppb sits at the 55th percentile in New Mexico and the 67th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
42 other systems share Santa Fe County; 22 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bishops Lodge. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Santa Fe Water System (City Of) | 90,810 | 1.1 ppb |
| Eldorado Area Water And Sanitation Dist. | 7,082 | 1.9 ppb |
| Epcor Water New Mexico Inc., Edgewood | 6,795 | 10 ppb |
| Santa Fe County South Sector | 6,775 | 3.3 ppb |
| Santa Fe County West Sector | 3,150 | 5 ppb |
| Glorieta Camps | 2,700 | 11 ppb |
| Las Campanas Water System | 1,937 | 1.6 ppb |
| Sunlit Hills Water System | 1,018 | 2.8 ppb |
| Agua Fria Water Association | 611 | 2.6 ppb |
| El Vadito De Los Cerrillos Water Assoc | 461 | 1.3 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Santa Fe, 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 Bishops Lodge 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. More in what a past exceedance means today.