Orchard Estates Flmdwc & Sw, NM
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.9 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.
Orchard Estates Flmdwc & Sw at a glance
Orchard Estates Flmdwc & Sw serves about 40 people through 14 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 Sandoval County, New Mexico. EPA system ID: NM3500923; phone on file: 505-328-4557. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 13.1 ppb from 17 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Orchard Estates Flmdwc & Sw is 17 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 3 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.9 ppb |
| 2020 | 17 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 17 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 17 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.5 ppb |
How Orchard Estates Flmdwc & Sw 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. Orchard Estates Flmdwc & Sw's 3.9 ppb sits at the 81st percentile in New Mexico and the 87th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
27 other systems share Sandoval County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Orchard Estates Flmdwc & Sw. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Rio Rancho Water & Ww Services | 107,350 | 2 ppb |
| Bernalillo Water System | 11,810 | 1.4 ppb |
| Cuba Water System | 1,789 | 7.9 ppb |
| Jemez Springs Dwua | 1,385 | 6.8 ppb |
| La Mesa Water Coop | 911 | 0.57 ppb |
| Regina Mdwca | 705 | 0.6 ppb |
| Pena Blanca Water & Sanitation District | 700 | 3.3 ppb |
| North Ranchos De Placitas W&Sd | 659 | - |
| Las Acequias De Placitas | 596 | 1 ppb |
| Ponderosa Mdwca | 567 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Corrales, 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 Orchard Estates Flmdwc & Sw 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.