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Is Santa Fe Foothills, NM tap water safe?

Santa Fe Water System (City Of) serves Santa Fe Foothills, 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

Santa Fe Water System (City Of) serves Santa Fe Foothills. In EPA’s and New Mexico’s records it has 3 results above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark, and 1 health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Lithium at 20.9 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 Santa Fe Water System (City Of)’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Santa Fe Foothills

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 3 labs New Mexico certifies closest to Santa Fe Foothills, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • BSN dba Indepth Water Testing

    Santa Fe, NM · about 7 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (505) 471-2023

  • NM Water Testing Laboratory

    Espanola, NM · about 29 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (505) 929-4545

  • ABCWUA Water Quality Lab

    Albuquerque, NM · about 55 miles

    Certified for bacteria, lead and copper

    (505) 289-3499

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 Santa Fe Foothills

Which ZIP codes are in Santa Fe Foothills: 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.

Near Santa Fe Foothills

Other towns in Santa Fe County with a page of their own.

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