Sky Country Estates Mdwca, NM
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 17.5 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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.
Who runs the water here
Sky Country Estates Mdwca serves about 81 people through 30 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Otero County, New Mexico. EPA system ID: NM3502519; phone on file: 602-510-8582. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Sky Country Estates Mdwca's lead record
That is up 14.8 ppb from 2.7 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sky Country Estates Mdwca is 17.5 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 17.5 ppb over 15 |
| 2025 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2025 | 6.9 ppb |
| 2024 | 17 ppb over 15 |
| 2023 | 9.6 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. Sky Country Estates Mdwca's 17.5 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in New Mexico and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
35 other systems share Otero County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sky Country Estates Mdwca. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Alamogordo Domestic Water System | 35,301 | 2 ppb |
| Holloman Air Force Base | 13,000 | 1.3 ppb |
| Tularosa Water System | 3,485 | 1.9 ppb |
| Cloudcroft Water System | 2,865 | 2.6 ppb |
| Timberon W And Sd | 2,698 | 3.1 ppb |
| La Luz Mdwca | 1,917 | 3.9 ppb |
| Twin Forks Mdwca | 1,274 | 3.6 ppb |
| Cloud Country West Water System | 684 | 1.5 ppb |
| Boles Acres Water System | 657 | 0 (not detected) |
| Eileen Acres Mdwca | 457 | - |
Your move
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 Sky Country Estates Mdwca 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.