Laborcita Water Users Association, NM
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.3 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Laborcita Water Users Association
Laborcita Water Users Association serves about 70 people through 26 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 Otero County, New Mexico. EPA system ID: NM3562919; phone on file: 575-430-8892. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2025 (3.4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Laborcita Water Users Association is 16 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 4.3 ppb |
| 2025 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2024 | 3.1 ppb |
| 2023 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2023 | 16 ppb over 15 |
| 2023 | 4 ppb |
| 2022 | 16 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 3.2 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. Laborcita Water Users Association's 4.3 ppb sits at the 84th percentile in New Mexico and the 89th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Otero County
35 other systems share Otero County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Laborcita Water Users Association. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Alamogordo Domestic Water System | 35,301 | 2 ppb |
| Holloman Air Force Base | 13,000 | 1.3 ppb |
| Tularosa Water System | 3,485 | 1.9 ppb |
| Cloudcroft Water System | 2,865 | 2.6 ppb |
| Timberon W And Sd | 2,698 | 3.1 ppb |
| La Luz Mdwca | 1,917 | 3.9 ppb |
| Twin Forks Mdwca | 1,274 | 3.6 ppb |
| Cloud Country West Water System | 684 | 1.5 ppb |
| Boles Acres Water System | 657 | 0 (not detected) |
| Eileen Acres Mdwca | 457 | - |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; La Luz, 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 Laborcita Water Users Association 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.