Quail Hollow Mdwua, NM
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 14 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Quail Hollow Mdwua at a glance
Quail Hollow Mdwua serves about 28 people through 11 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 Bernalillo County, New Mexico. EPA system ID: NM3521001; phone on file: 505-281-5711. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Quail Hollow Mdwua's lead record
That is up 11.3 ppb from 2.7 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Quail Hollow Mdwua is 14 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 14 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2016 | 8 ppb |
How Quail Hollow Mdwua 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. Quail Hollow Mdwua's 14 ppb sits at the 97th percentile in New Mexico and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
41 other systems share Bernalillo County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Quail Hollow Mdwua. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Albuquerque Water System | 560,326 | 0 (not detected) |
| University Of New Mexico | 35,000 | 1.1 ppb |
| Kirtland Air Force Base | 22,500 | 2.3 ppb |
| Sandia Peak Utility | 6,079 | 2.8 ppb |
| Tierra West Estates Mhp | 1,447 | 1 ppb |
| Sandia Knolls Water System | 1,098 | 1.1 ppb |
| Tranquillo Pines Mdwca | 814 | 3.3 ppb |
| Coronado Village Country Club | 802 | 2.1 ppb |
| Tijeras (Village Of) | 541 | 1 ppb |
| South Hills Water Company | 506 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Tijeras, 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 Quail Hollow Mdwua 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. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.