Forest Park Property Owners Coop, 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.
Forest Park Property Owners Coop at a glance
Forest Park Property Owners Coop serves about 213 people through 91 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Bernalillo County, New Mexico. EPA system ID: NM3548301; phone on file: 850-543-3372. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is down 9 ppb from 10 ppb in the period ending 2018. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Forest Park Property Owners Coop is 10 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 10 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. Forest Park Property Owners Coop's 1 ppb sits at the 39th percentile in New Mexico and the 52nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
41 other systems share Bernalillo County; 19 of them have a higher latest lead result than Forest Park Property Owners Coop. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Albuquerque Water System | 560,326 | 0 (not detected) |
| University Of New Mexico | 35,000 | 1.1 ppb |
| Kirtland Air Force Base | 22,500 | 2.3 ppb |
| Sandia Peak Utility | 6,079 | 2.8 ppb |
| Tierra West Estates Mhp | 1,447 | 1 ppb |
| Sandia Knolls Water System | 1,098 | 1.1 ppb |
| Tranquillo Pines Mdwca | 814 | 3.3 ppb |
| Coronado Village Country Club | 802 | 2.1 ppb |
| Tijeras (Village Of) | 541 | 1 ppb |
| South Hills Water Company | 506 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Cedar Crest, 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 Forest Park Property Owners Coop 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.