Boles Acres Water System, NM
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
Boles Acres Water System serves about 657 people through 245 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Otero County, New Mexico. EPA system ID: NM3513419; phone on file: 575-437-3601. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is down 2.6 ppb from 2.6 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Boles Acres Water System is 2.6 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 2.6 ppb |
How Boles Acres Water System compares
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. Boles Acres Water System's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 18th percentile in New Mexico and the 24th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
35 other systems share Otero County; 32 of them have a higher latest lead result than Boles Acres Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Alamogordo Domestic Water System | 35,301 | 2 ppb |
| Holloman Air Force Base | 13,000 | 1.3 ppb |
| Tularosa Water System | 3,485 | 1.9 ppb |
| Cloudcroft Water System | 2,865 | 2.6 ppb |
| Timberon W And Sd | 2,698 | 3.1 ppb |
| La Luz Mdwca | 1,917 | 3.9 ppb |
| Twin Forks Mdwca | 1,274 | 3.6 ppb |
| Cloud Country West Water System | 684 | 1.5 ppb |
| Eileen Acres Mdwca | 457 | - |
| Robinhood Water Users Association | 426 | 2.6 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Boles Acres Water System's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Boles Acres Water System 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.