White Sands Missile Range (Main Post)-Ff, NM
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.13 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. 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 White Sands Missile Range (Main Post)-Ff
White Sands Missile Range (Main Post)-Ff serves about 4,300 people through 1,000 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is federally owned and draws groundwater, in Dona Ana County, New Mexico. EPA system ID: NM3568007; phone on file: 575-678-2415. 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 2020 (0.78 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for White Sands Missile Range (Main Post)-Ff is 3.1 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.13 ppb |
| 2020 | 0.78 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.1 ppb |
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. White Sands Missile Range (Main Post)-Ff's 1.13 ppb sits at the 45th percentile in New Mexico and the 58th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
43 other systems share Dona Ana County; 13 of them have a higher latest lead result than White Sands Missile Range (Main Post)-Ff. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Las Cruces Municipal Water System | 98,175 | 2 ppb |
| New Mexico State University | 24,000 | 4 ppb |
| Camino Real Regional Utility Authority | 21,930 | 5 ppb |
| Dona Ana Mdwca | 16,987 | 1.9 ppb |
| Lake Section Water Company | 14,619 | 0 (not detected) |
| Moongate West | 13,362 | 0.56 ppb |
| Lower Rio Grande Pwwa South Valley | 11,542 | 0.31 ppb |
| Moongate Water System | 9,170 | 0.51 ppb |
| Anthony W&Sd | 8,691 | 2 ppb |
| University Estates Water System (Lcu) | 5,292 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; White Sands Missile Range, 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 White Sands Missile Range (Main Post)-Ff 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.