Nevada
196 Utilities
Serving: 2,623,000
Data available: 2012-2017
Contaminants Found: 98
EWG's drinking water quality report for Nevada shows results of tests conducted by the water utilities in Nevada and provided to EWG by the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection.
Below are utilities in Nevada serving over 10,000 people, listed alphabetically.
Large utilities in Nevada
Utility | Location | People Served |
---|---|---|
Boulder City | Boulder City, NV | 15,000 |
Carson City Public Works | Carson City, NV | 56,000 |
City of Elko | Elko, NV | 18,000 |
City of Henderson | Las Vegas, NV | 275,000 |
Dayton Valley Water System | Dayton, NV | 14,168 |
Fernley Public Works | Fernley, NV | 18,000 |
Las Vegas Valley Water District | Las Vegas, NV | 1,347,550 |
Nellis Air Force Base | Nellis Afb, NV | 19,081 |
North Las Vegas Utilities | North Las Vegas, NV | 306,570 |
Sun Valley Gid | Sun Valley, NV | 17,000 |
Truckee Meadows Water Authority | Reno, NV | 311,932 |
Virgin Valley Water District | Mesquite, NV | 18,000 |
Utilities that accumulated/accrued the most violation points as of April 2016 to March 2019 in Nevada
The Environmental Protection Agency's Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) database collects compliance and enforcement-related information for drinking water utilities nationwide. ECHO water quality violation scores take into account federal health-based water quality standards, as well as monitoring, reporting and other drinking water quality requirements. Points are accrued based on specific problems at the utility - violations of health-based drinking water standards receive more points than monitoring and reporting violations - and the length of time until the violations were corrected.
Large utilities that accumulated/accrued the most violation points as of April 2016 to March 2019 in Nevada
The Environmental Protection Agency's Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) database collects compliance and enforcement-related information for drinking water utilities nationwide. ECHO water quality violation scores take into account federal health-based water quality standards, as well as monitoring, reporting and other drinking water quality requirements. Points are accrued based on specific problems at the utility - violations of health-based drinking water standards receive more points than monitoring and reporting violations - and the length of time until the violations were corrected.
Utility | Location | People Served | Violation Points |
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Fernley Public Works | Fernley, NV | 18,000 | 1 |
Virgin Valley Water District | Mesquite, NV | 18,000 | 1 |
Carson City Public Works | Carson City, NV | 56,000 | 1 |
Contaminants found in Nevada above health guidelines
Found above health guidelines | Found | ||||||
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Contaminant | # of Utilities | People Served | # of Utilities | People Served | |||
Arsenic | 153 | 2,589,289 | 153 | 2,589,289 | |||
Nitrate | 148 | 2,573,673 | 168 | 2,579,740 | |||
Nitrate and nitrite | 147 | 2,570,265 | 160 | 2,573,977 | |||
Uranium | 153 | 2,564,986 | 158 | 2,566,706 | |||
Total trihalomethanes (TTHMs) | 111 | 2,562,373 | 111 | 2,562,373 | |||
Dibromochloromethane | 92 | 2,539,137 | 93 | 2,543,337 | |||
Haloacetic acids (HAA5) | 71 | 2,527,246 | 72 | 2,527,318 | |||
Bromodichloromethane | 79 | 2,514,426 | 81 | 2,521,696 | |||
Dibromoacetic acid | 48 | 2,486,810 | 48 | 2,486,810 | |||
Trichloroacetic acid | 48 | 2,457,788 | 48 | 2,457,788 | |||
Chloroform | 49 | 2,427,199 | 68 | 2,487,041 | |||
Chromium (hexavalent) | 19 | 2,416,374 | 19 | 2,416,374 | |||
Dichloroacetic acid | 39 | 2,410,464 | 39 | 2,410,464 | |||
Bromoform | 64 | 2,116,272 | 95 | 2,538,167 | |||
Radium, combined (-226 & -228) | 127 | 865,183 | 131 | 2,216,606 | |||
Tetrachloroethylene (perchloroethylene) | 5 | 330,362 | 6 | 348,362 | |||
Radon | 57 | 191,231 | 58 | 191,282 | |||
Bromochloroacetic acid | 4 | 91,007 | 4 | 91,007 | |||
Bromate | 5 | 24,161 | 5 | 24,161 | |||
Strontium | 1 | 18,000 | 20 | 2,416,414 | |||
Cadmium | 2 | 2,386 | 2 | 2,386 | |||
Antimony | 4 | 455 | 15 | 391,334 | |||
Thallium | 1 | 300 | 1 | 300 | |||
Manganese | 2 | 278 | 78 | 1,876,056 | |||
Methoxychlor | 1 | 150 | 1 | 150 | |||
Selenium | 1 | 110 | 46 | 2,048,112 |