Lovington Municipal Water Supply, NM
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Lovington Municipal Water Supply at a glance
Lovington Municipal Water Supply serves about 13,539 people through 4,298 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Lea County, New Mexico. EPA system ID: NM3521813; phone on file: 575-396-2884. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lovington Municipal Water Supply's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lovington Municipal Water Supply is 2 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0.56 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.56 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 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. Lovington Municipal Water Supply's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 23rd percentile in New Mexico and the 38th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
9 other systems share Lea County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lovington Municipal Water Supply. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Hobbs Municipal Water Supply | 40,418 | 0.6 ppb |
| Jal Water Supply System | 5,500 | 0.6 ppb |
| Eunice Water Supply System | 4,487 | 0.99 ppb |
| Tatum Municipal Water System | 948 | 1.1 ppb |
| Monument Mdwca | 279 | 0 (not detected) |
| Adobe Village | 83 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mescalero Ridge Water Co-Op | 76 | 0.5 ppb |
| Monarchy Country Estates | 52 | 3.5 ppb |
| Morwest Corporation | - | - |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Lovington Municipal Water Supply's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Lovington Municipal Water Supply 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.