EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The Camino Real Regional Utility Authority (CRRUA) says it continues to make progress in addressing deficiencies identified by the New Mexico Environment Department during a 2023 survey of the utility system.
CRRUA says it has now corrected 55 of the 58 deficiencies identified by NMED. That brings its compliance rate to 94.8 percent, the utility said.
CRRUA initiated a Progress Checklist to track the corrections. The latest deficiencies CRRUA corrected are numbers 52 and 55, which were water storage tank inspections, the utility said.
The Progress Checklist is updated as corrections are made and is available for viewing on the home page of the CRRUA website at crrua.org, the utility said.
“CRRUA has made tremendous progress in upgrading the utility system for the health and safety of our customers,” CRRUA Executive Director Juan Crosby said. “These latest corrections bring us that much closer to reaching 100% compliance in addressing the deficiencies identified by NMED in its 2023 Sanitary Survey, which results in the continued delivery of safe water and improved service.”
Crosby said other recent improvements include all four arsenic treatment facilities (ATFs) becoming NMED compliant based on the department’s running annual average (RAA).
“We are treating water that continues to be below the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) maximum contamination level (MCL) of 10 parts per billion (ppb),” Crosby said.
CRRUA provides water and wastewater service to Sunland Park and Santa Teresa.
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