Carisbrook Property Owners Association, NM
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.8 ppb (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. 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
Carisbrook Property Owners Association serves about 47 people through 24 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Colfax County, New Mexico. EPA system ID: NM3500404; phone on file: 505-652-6000. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2017 (1.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Carisbrook Property Owners Association is 2.4 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.4 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. Carisbrook Property Owners Association's 1.8 ppb sits at the 55th percentile in New Mexico and the 67th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
12 other systems share Colfax County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Carisbrook Property Owners Association. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Raton/Raton Water Works | 9,733 | 3.4 ppb |
| Village Of Angel Fire | 6,045 | 15 ppb |
| Philmont Boy Scout Ranch - Headquarters | 2,000 | 3.9 ppb |
| Cimarron Water System | 1,260 | 0 (not detected) |
| Springer Water System | 1,170 | 0 (not detected) |
| Village Of Eagle Nest | 613 | 1.7 ppb |
| Maxwell Water System | 340 | 17 ppb |
| Maxwell Cooperative Water Users Assoc | 261 | 1 ppb |
| French Mdwca/Swa | 209 | 0 (not detected) |
| Miami Water Users Association | 135 | 5 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Raton, 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 Carisbrook Property Owners Association whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1400 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.