Imlay Water System, NV
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2017-2025). 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
Imlay Water System serves about 200 people through 89 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 Pershing County, Nevada. EPA system ID: NV0000226; phone on file: 775-273-2700. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Imlay Water System's lead record
That is down 3 ppb from 3 ppb in the period ending 2019. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Imlay Water System is 3 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 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. Imlay Water System's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 16th percentile in Nevada and the 15th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
3 other systems share Pershing County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Imlay Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lovelock Meadows Water District | 3,562 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lovelock Correctional Center Ndoc | 1,630 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dutchman Acres | 260 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Imlay 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 Imlay 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.