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Dossier · Organization
Camino Real Regional Utility Authority (CRRUA)
The utility that supplies the campus's potable water, whose past arsenic-treatment failures are part of the water record.
At a glance
- Kind
- Utility
- Role in the project
- Utility provider
- Jurisdiction
- Regional (multi-jurisdiction)
- Verification
- unverified
- In the record
- 1 sources · 1 connections · 3 dated entries
- Record id
- PJO14
Key facts
- 2023-12Found in December 2023 to be bypassing three of its four arsenic treatment plants, with 58 deficiencies in the 2023 sanitary survey.
- 2026-02-11NMED proposed a $251,580 penalty on March 1, 2024; the case settled on February 11, 2026 for $189,000.[1]
- All four plants have been compliant since January 2025, with five consecutive quarterly passes through January 2026 and 56 of 58 deficiencies corrected.
- 2026-08Discolored-water complaints in Santa Teresa persisted into August 2026.
- Serves about 19,000 people in Sunland Park and Santa Teresa.
The record
The utility that supplies the campus's potable water — and the one whose arsenic-treatment failure is the cautionary tale under the whole water story: three of four treatment plants bypassed for over a year, 58 deficiencies, a $251,580 proposed fine settled for $189,000 in February 2026.
All four plants have been compliant since January 2025 — a documented past failure with a live residual: discolored-water complaints in Santa Teresa persisted into August 2026.
Relationships · 1
In the timeline · 3
Dated entries in the record that involve this party. Appearing here is not an allegation — it means the graph draws an edge from this dossier to that event.
Sources · 1
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