Sierra Los Pinos Hoa, NM
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 38 ppb (monitoring period 2018-2020). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
About Sierra Los Pinos Hoa
Sierra Los Pinos Hoa serves about 300 people through 150 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: NM3565423; phone on file: 954-702-4345. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sierra Los Pinos Hoa is 38 ppb across 1 monitoring period, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 38 ppb over 15 |
Against other New Mexico systems
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. Sierra Los Pinos Hoa's 38 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in New Mexico and the 100th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
27 other systems share Sandoval County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sierra Los Pinos Hoa. 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 Jemez Springs, NM
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Sierra Los Pinos Hoa 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.