Desert Mirage Homeowners Association, NV
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 ppb (monitoring period 2010-2018). 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.
Desert Mirage Homeowners Association at a glance
Desert Mirage Homeowners Association serves about 230 people through 65 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Nye County, Nevada. EPA system ID: NV0000831; phone on file: 702-556-8086. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Desert Mirage Homeowners Association is 3 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 3 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Desert Mirage Homeowners Association's 3 ppb sits at the 83rd percentile in Nevada and the 81st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Nye County
25 other systems share Nye County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Desert Mirage Homeowners Association. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Great Basin Water Company | 12,255 | 3 ppb |
| Mountain Falls Water System Gbwc | 4,345 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tonopah Public Utilities | 2,853 | 3 ppb |
| Round Mountain Puc | 1,200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Desert Utilities | 1,086 | 0 (not detected) |
| Country View Estates Gbwc | 1,072 | 3 ppb |
| Beatty Water And Sanitation District | 1,024 | 1.4 ppb |
| Pahrump Utility Company Inc | 985 | 0.6 ppb |
| Carvers Smokey Valley Rv And Mhp | 250 | 0 (not detected) |
| Shoshone Estates Water Co Inc | 240 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pahrump, 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 Desert Mirage Homeowners Association 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.