Bluewater Acres Wua, NM
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Who runs the water here
Bluewater Acres Wua serves about 331 people through 104 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Cibola County, New Mexico. EPA system ID: NM3510333; phone on file: 505-870-1164. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bluewater Acres Wua is 2 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 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. Bluewater Acres Wua's 2 ppb sits at the 61st percentile in New Mexico and the 71st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Cibola County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bluewater Acres Wua. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Grants Domestic Water System | 10,523 | 4 ppb |
| Milan Community Water System | 2,560 | 3 ppb |
| San Rafael Water & Sanitation District | 1,060 | 2 ppb |
| Bluewater Water And Sanitation District | 492 | 1.3 ppb |
| Bibo Mutual Domestic Water Assoc | 241 | 0 (not detected) |
| Seboyeta Water System | 209 | 2 ppb |
| San Mateo Mdwca | 182 | 1.7 ppb |
| Moquino Water System | 55 | 2 ppb |
Next steps for Thoreau, NM
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Thoreau, 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 Bluewater Acres Wua 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.