El Vadito De Los Cerrillos Water Assoc, NM
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.3 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
El Vadito De Los Cerrillos Water Assoc serves about 461 people through 170 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 Santa Fe County, New Mexico. EPA system ID: NM3504126; phone on file: 505-438-3008. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is down 9.7 ppb from 11 ppb in the period ending 2016. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for El Vadito De Los Cerrillos Water Assoc is 11 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2016 | 11 ppb over 10 |
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. El Vadito De Los Cerrillos Water Assoc's 1.3 ppb sits at the 48th percentile in New Mexico and the 60th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
42 other systems share Santa Fe County; 26 of them have a higher latest lead result than El Vadito De Los Cerrillos Water Assoc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Santa Fe Water System (City Of) | 90,810 | 1.1 ppb |
| Eldorado Area Water And Sanitation Dist. | 7,082 | 1.9 ppb |
| Epcor Water New Mexico Inc., Edgewood | 6,795 | 10 ppb |
| Santa Fe County South Sector | 6,775 | 3.3 ppb |
| Santa Fe County West Sector | 3,150 | 5 ppb |
| Glorieta Camps | 2,700 | 11 ppb |
| Las Campanas Water System | 1,937 | 1.6 ppb |
| Sunlit Hills Water System | 1,018 | 2.8 ppb |
| Agua Fria Water Association | 611 | 2.6 ppb |
| Bishops Lodge | 450 | 1.8 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Cerrillos, 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 El Vadito De Los Cerrillos Water Assoc 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.