Placitas Trails Water Coop, NM
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.4 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.
About Placitas Trails Water Coop
Placitas Trails Water Coop serves about 413 people through 154 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Sandoval County, New Mexico. EPA system ID: NM3576723; phone on file: 818-693-2946. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Placitas Trails Water Coop's lead record
That is up 1.67 ppb from 0.73 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Placitas Trails Water Coop is 2.5 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.73 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.5 ppb |
How Placitas Trails Water Coop 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. Placitas Trails Water Coop's 2.4 ppb sits at the 70th percentile in New Mexico and the 77th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
27 other systems share Sandoval County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Placitas Trails Water Coop. 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) |
Next steps for Albuquerque, NM
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 Placitas Trails Water Coop 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.