EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The Camino Real Regional Utility Authority (CRRUA) announced that it has passed its monthly operational control arsenic tests for June, according to a news release on Wednesday, June 18.
The utility provides water and wastewater services to Sunland Park and Santa Teresa.
According to CRRUA, the test results were released by Eurofins Environment Testing, a water lab certified by the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED).
The water utility said the Sunland Park Arsenic Treatment Facility (AFT) tested at 4.4 parts per billion (ppb), the Santa Teresa Community AFT tested at 5.5 ppb, and the Santa Teresa Industrial AFT tested at 7 ppb.
According to CRRUA, all three facilities were below the Environmental Protection Agency’s maximum contaminant level for arsenic of 10 ppb.
The test results were from samples taken on June 10, according to CRRUA.
Additionally, CRRUA said they excluded the Border Entry AFT from the testing due to its continued meeting of all state requirements.
“All four ATFs operated by CRRUA are NMED compliant based on the department’s Running Annual Average (RAA.) The RAA is determined by averaging the previous four quarterly samples. If the RAA is at or below the Maximum Contaminate Level (MCL) of 10 parts per billion (ppb), the system is in compliance,” read the news release by CRRUA.
“CRRUA is compliant with arsenic standards under the Safe Drinking Water Act and our arsenic treatment facilities continue to operate as intended. We are committed to maintaining full transparency by publicly sharing results from both regulatory samples and voluntary testing,” CRRUA Executive Director Juan Crosby said.
Arsenic test results are available on CRRUA’s website.
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