Clines Corners Water System, NM
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 19 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
Clines Corners Water System at a glance
Clines Corners Water System serves about 450 people through 59 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 Torrance County, New Mexico. EPA system ID: NM3575330; phone on file: 575-472-5488. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 17.3 ppb from 1.7 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Clines Corners Water System is 19 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 19 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.2 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. Clines Corners Water System's 19 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in New Mexico and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
17 other systems share Torrance County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Clines Corners Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Moriarty Water System | 2,825 | 8.8 ppb |
| Mountainair Water System | 1,505 | 0 (not detected) |
| Estancia Water System | 1,355 | 3 ppb |
| Indian Hills Water System | 715 | 1.3 ppb |
| Echo Valley Water Company | 411 | 0 (not detected) |
| Emwt Rwa Sunset Acres | 317 | 3.6 ppb |
| Willard Village Of | 279 | 2 ppb |
| Torreon Mdwca | 250 | 3 ppb |
| Melody Ranch Water Co | 209 | 4.8 ppb |
| Emwt Rwa Homestead | 208 | 4.5 ppb |
Your move
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Clines Corners 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.