Great Basin Water Co Spring Creek Mhp, NV
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Who runs the water here
Great Basin Water Co Spring Creek Mhp serves about 3,640 people through 1,448 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Elko County, Nevada. EPA system ID: NV0005027. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Great Basin Water Co Spring Creek Mhp is 5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 5 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
How Great Basin Water Co Spring Creek Mhp 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. Great Basin Water Co Spring Creek Mhp's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 34th percentile in Nevada and the 34th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
15 other systems share Elko County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Great Basin Water Co Spring Creek Mhp. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Elko City Of | 23,000 | 3 ppb |
| Great Basin Water Co Spring Creek | 9,340 | 1.1 ppb |
| West Wendover Water System | 4,535 | 0 (not detected) |
| Carlin Utilities | 2,500 | 4 ppb |
| Wells Municipal Water Department | 1,300 | 1.8 ppb |
| Jackpot Water System | 1,240 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ruby Dome Holdings Dba Elko Rv Park | 357 | 4.3 ppb |
| Montello Water System | 287 | 1.2 ppb |
| Valley View Rv Park | 250 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lamoille Water Users Assoc | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Spring Creek, NV
Look up your address in Great Basin Water Co Spring Creek Mhp'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 Great Basin Water Co Spring Creek Mhp 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.