Village Of Eagle Nest, NM
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.7 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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 Village Of Eagle Nest
Village Of Eagle Nest serves about 613 people through 288 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Colfax County, New Mexico. EPA system ID: NM3531804; phone on file: 575-377-2486. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (0.75 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Village Of Eagle Nest is 1.7 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.75 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. Village Of Eagle Nest's 1.7 ppb sits at the 54th percentile in New Mexico and the 66th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
12 other systems share Colfax County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Village Of Eagle Nest. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Raton/Raton Water Works | 9,733 | 3.4 ppb |
| Village Of Angel Fire | 6,045 | 15 ppb |
| Philmont Boy Scout Ranch - Headquarters | 2,000 | 3.9 ppb |
| Cimarron Water System | 1,260 | 0 (not detected) |
| Springer Water System | 1,170 | 0 (not detected) |
| Maxwell Water System | 340 | 17 ppb |
| Maxwell Cooperative Water Users Assoc | 261 | 1 ppb |
| French Mdwca/Swa | 209 | 0 (not detected) |
| Miami Water Users Association | 135 | 5 ppb |
| Vermejo Park - Headquarters | 120 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Eagle Nest, 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 Village Of Eagle Nest 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.