Gabbs Water System, NV
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2012-2020). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Gabbs Water System at a glance
Gabbs Water System serves about 237 people through 186 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Nye County, Nevada. EPA system ID: NV0000063; phone on file: 775-277-0855. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Gabbs Water System is 0 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Gabbs Water System's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 18th percentile in Nevada and the 16th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Nye County
25 other systems share Nye County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than Gabbs Water System. 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) |
Next steps for Pahrump, NV
Look up your address in Gabbs Water System's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Gabbs Water System 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.