Caliente Public Utilities, NV
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.9 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Caliente Public Utilities at a glance
Caliente Public Utilities serves about 1,100 people through 486 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Lincoln County, Nevada. EPA system ID: NV0000013; phone on file: 775-726-8342. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Caliente Public Utilities's lead record
That is down 1.1 ppb from 6 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Caliente Public Utilities is 6 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 4.9 ppb |
| 2021 | 6 ppb |
| 2018 | 4 ppb |
| 2016 | 5 ppb |
How Caliente Public Utilities compares
Of the 204 Nevada systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1 ppb; 0 are over 15 ppb right now and 13 have gone over at some point. Caliente Public Utilities's 4.9 ppb sits at the 95th percentile in Nevada and the 90th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
4 other systems share Lincoln County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Caliente Public Utilities. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Alamo Sewer And Water Gid | 900 | 0 (not detected) |
| Panaca Farmstead Association | 900 | 1.1 ppb |
| Pioche Public Utilities | 700 | 4 ppb |
| Pioche Public Utilities Castleton | 60 | 1.8 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Caliente, NV may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Caliente Public Utilities whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.