Manuelito Navajo Childrens Home, NM
Exceeded the action level in the past
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 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.
Manuelito Navajo Childrens Home at a glance
Manuelito Navajo Childrens Home serves about 35 people through 13 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Mckinley County, New Mexico. EPA system ID: NM3560617; phone on file: 505-863-5530. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Manuelito Navajo Childrens Home's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Manuelito Navajo Childrens Home is 17 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 17 ppb over 15 |
How Manuelito Navajo Childrens Home 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. Manuelito Navajo Childrens Home's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 0th percentile in New Mexico and the 1st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Mckinley County
14 other systems share Mckinley County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Manuelito Navajo Childrens Home. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Gallup Water System | 20,880 | 0 (not detected) |
| Gamerco Water & Sanitation | 1,744 | 8.3 ppb |
| Thoreau Water & Sanitation District | 1,173 | 1.2 ppb |
| Ramah Water & Sanitation District | 517 | 1.5 ppb |
| Yah Ta Hey W & Sd | 435 | 1.4 ppb |
| Whispering Cedars Water Association | 425 | 2 ppb |
| White Cliffs Mdwua | 323 | 2 ppb |
| Top Of The World Water Association Corp | 177 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bluewater Lake Mdwca | 135 | 5.3 ppb |
| Coal Basin Dwua | 116 | 10 ppb |
Next steps for Gallup, NM
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Gallup, 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 Manuelito Navajo Childrens Home 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.