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Julie takes her existing list, contacts NMED to request their list of public water suppliers
She requests from NMENV a list of PWS from NMEENV because of their reporting obligations to EPA (on water quality?) they have a comprehensive list. So I have list of most current systems. Alot are now regionalizing. (i.e. city of las cruces consolidates smaller PWS). Sometimes new PWS are created.
They update list every 7 years.
May not be a superset of waters db but because of the reporting requirement mandates they may have more current info than waters db.
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Creates a compehensive list that is a merge of WATERS and NMED PWS lists. Merges them manually (matching by system name). If not present in waters WATERS list, then adds entry from NMED list.
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