Burro Mountain Homestead, NM
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 12 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Who runs the water here
Burro Mountain Homestead serves about 415 people through 180 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Grant County, New Mexico. EPA system ID: NM3591309; phone on file: 575-740-2740. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 8.9 ppb from 3.1 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Burro Mountain Homestead is 12 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 12 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 3.1 ppb |
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. Burro Mountain Homestead's 12 ppb sits at the 96th percentile in New Mexico and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
16 other systems share Grant County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Burro Mountain Homestead. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Silver City Water System | 14,400 | 0.76 ppb |
| Bayard Municipal Water System | 2,616 | 2.1 ppb |
| Santa Clara Water System | 1,682 | 5.4 ppb |
| Hurley, Town Of | 1,613 | 0.57 ppb |
| Arenas Valley Mdwca | 1,204 | 1.4 ppb |
| Freeport Mcmoran Chino Mines | 1,050 | 6 ppb |
| Tyrone Townsite | 782 | 0.67 ppb |
| Casas Adobes Mdwca | 610 | 0 (not detected) |
| North Hurley Mdwca | 404 | 0.85 ppb |
| Pinos Altos Mdwca | 348 | 0.43 ppb |
Next steps for Silver City, NM
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Silver City, 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 Burro Mountain Homestead 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. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.