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Is Gallup, NM tap water safe?

Gallup Water System serves Gallup, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and New Mexico’s records show for it, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

Gallup Water System serves Gallup. In EPA’s and New Mexico’s records it has 1 result above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark, and 8 health-based violations since 2016.

The worst: Lithium at 40.9 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

Some homes in a town are on private wells or a small system of their own. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in Gallup Water System’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Gallup

A utility tests the water it sends out. A test of your own tap shows what your pipes add, and on a private well it is the only test there is. It takes a lab New Mexico certifies.

The 2 labs New Mexico certifies closest to Gallup, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Gallup Microbiology Lab

    Gallup, NM · under a mile

    Certified for bacteria

    (505) 863-2001

  • NM Microbiology Lab

    Milan, NM · about 58 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (505) 287-2208

New Mexico Environment Department: Water fairs in New Mexico communities, where well owners bring in a quart of well water to be tested for arsenic, nitrate, fluoride, iron, sulfate, pH and conductivity, with results mailed in two to four weeks. Dates are on the department's calendar. Water Fairs, New Mexico Environment Department.

All 44 certified labs for New Mexico

ZIP codes in Gallup

Which ZIP codes are in Gallup: Census 2020 relationship files. Which utilities serve them, and how many people: EPA SDWIS and EPA’s service area map. Each utility’s results: EPA UCMR 5, EPA SDWIS, and EPA’s and the state’s compliance monitoring, as its report lists them. How they are measured: methodology. Certified labs: New Mexico Environment Department, Drinking Water Bureau, laboratories certified to analyze drinking water samples; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

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