Miami Water Users Association, NM
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5 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. 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.
Miami Water Users Association at a glance
Miami Water Users Association serves about 135 people through 72 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 surface water, in Colfax County, New Mexico. EPA system ID: NM3526504; phone on file: 361-813-4445. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Miami Water Users Association's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Miami Water Users Association is 5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 ppb |
| 2022 | 5 ppb |
| 2019 | 3 ppb |
| 2016 | 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. Miami Water Users Association's 5 ppb sits at the 86th percentile in New Mexico and the 91st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
12 other systems share Colfax County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Miami Water Users Association. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Raton/Raton Water Works | 9,733 | 3.4 ppb |
| Village Of Angel Fire | 6,045 | 15 ppb |
| Philmont Boy Scout Ranch - Headquarters | 2,000 | 3.9 ppb |
| Cimarron Water System | 1,260 | 0 (not detected) |
| Springer Water System | 1,170 | 0 (not detected) |
| Village Of Eagle Nest | 613 | 1.7 ppb |
| Maxwell Water System | 340 | 17 ppb |
| Maxwell Cooperative Water Users Assoc | 261 | 1 ppb |
| French Mdwca/Swa | 209 | 0 (not detected) |
| Vermejo Park - Headquarters | 120 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Springer, NM
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Springer, 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 Miami 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.