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Is Truth or Consequences, NM tap water safe?

2 utilities serve Truth or Consequences, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and New Mexico’s records show for each, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

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The short answer

1 of the 2 utilities serving Truth or Consequences has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and New Mexico’s records: Truth Or Consequences.

Elephant Butte Water System, which serves the most people here, has 1 result above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029, 2 results above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: PFOS at 6.7 ppt, above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029.

A town can be served by more than one utility, and some homes are on private wells. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours, and your ZIP code narrows it down. They are listed by how many people each serves in Truth or Consequences’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in Elephant Butte Water System’s water, which serves the most people here. Another utility’s report names what handles its own results.

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Water testing near Truth or Consequences

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 lab New Mexico certifies closest to Truth or Consequences, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Aqua Environmental Testing -Las Cruces

    Las Cruces, NM · about 63 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (575) 526-0871

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 Truth or Consequences

Which ZIP codes are in Truth or Consequences: 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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