Epcor Water New Mexico Inc Clovis, NM
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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. 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
Epcor Water New Mexico Inc Clovis serves about 41,066 people through 15,917 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Curry County, New Mexico. EPA system ID: NM3527305; phone on file: 575-219-3504. 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 2021 (0.88 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Epcor Water New Mexico Inc Clovis is 1 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.88 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.52 ppb |
How Epcor Water New Mexico Inc Clovis 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. Epcor Water New Mexico Inc Clovis's 1 ppb sits at the 43rd percentile in New Mexico and the 56th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
7 other systems share Curry County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Epcor Water New Mexico Inc Clovis. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Cannon Air Force Base Water System | 7,832 | 0.59 ppb |
| Texico Water System | 1,426 | - |
| Melrose Water System | 1,296 | 1 ppb |
| Longhorn Estates Mdwca | 264 | 0 (not detected) |
| Grady Water System | 127 | 19 ppb |
| Turquoise Estates Water Coop | 97 | 1 ppb |
| Desert Ranch Mdwca | 89 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Clovis, 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 Epcor Water New Mexico Inc Clovis 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.