La Joya Mdwca, NM
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.7 ppb (monitoring period 2014-2016). 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.
About La Joya Mdwca
La Joya Mdwca serves about 200 people through 68 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 Socorro County, New Mexico. EPA system ID: NM3552728; phone on file: 505-864-7094. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
La Joya Mdwca's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for La Joya Mdwca is 0.7 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 0.7 ppb |
How La Joya Mdwca 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. La Joya Mdwca's 0.7 ppb sits at the 32nd percentile in New Mexico and the 46th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Socorro County
6 other systems share Socorro County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than La Joya Mdwca. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Socorro Water System | 12,026 | 0 (not detected) |
| Polvadera Mdwca | 2,470 | 1.4 ppb |
| San Antonio Mdwca | 1,344 | 2 ppb |
| Magdalena Village Of | 1,321 | 2.6 ppb |
| San Acacia Mdwca | 284 | 0 (not detected) |
| New Mexico Boys And Girls Ranch | 60 | 9.1 ppb |
Next steps for La Joya, NM
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; La Joya, 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 La Joya Mdwca 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.