Melody Ranch Water Co, NM
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.8 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Who runs the water here
Melody Ranch Water Co serves about 209 people through 77 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Torrance County, New Mexico. EPA system ID: NM3500130; phone on file: 505-832-4092. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 31.2 ppb from 36 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Melody Ranch Water Co is 36 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4.8 ppb |
| 2020 | 36 ppb over 15 |
How Melody Ranch Water Co 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. Melody Ranch Water Co's 4.8 ppb sits at the 85th percentile in New Mexico and the 90th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
17 other systems share Torrance County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Melody Ranch Water Co. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Moriarty Water System | 2,825 | 8.8 ppb |
| Mountainair Water System | 1,505 | 0 (not detected) |
| Estancia Water System | 1,355 | 3 ppb |
| Indian Hills Water System | 715 | 1.3 ppb |
| Clines Corners Water System | 450 | 19 ppb |
| Echo Valley Water Company | 411 | 0 (not detected) |
| Emwt Rwa Sunset Acres | 317 | 3.6 ppb |
| Willard Village Of | 279 | 2 ppb |
| Torreon Mdwca | 250 | 3 ppb |
| Emwt Rwa Homestead | 208 | 4.5 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Albuquerque, 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 Melody Ranch Water Co 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.