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Indian Springs Water Co Inc, NV

Lead detected, under the action levels

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.1 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.

Who runs the water here

Indian Springs Water Co Inc serves about 900 people through 195 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Clark County, Nevada. EPA system ID: NV0000082; phone on file: 702-879-3728. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.

Lead results over time

Against the period ending 2023 (0.81 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Indian Springs Water Co Inc is 13 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).

Period ending90th-percentile lead
20261.1 ppb
20230.81 ppb
20206 ppb
20170 (not detected)
201613 ppb over 10

Against other Nevada systems

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. Indian Springs Water Co Inc's 1.1 ppb sits at the 55th percentile in Nevada and the 57th nationally (higher means more lead).

Nearby utilities

44 other systems share Clark County; 20 of them have a higher latest lead result than Indian Springs Water Co Inc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.

SystemPeopleLatest lead
Las Vegas Valley Water District1,539,2772.08 ppb
North Las Vegas Utilities376,5151.38 ppb
Henderson City Of336,5343.8 ppb
Virgin Valley Water District26,0000 (not detected)
Nellis Air Force Base19,0816.66 ppb
Boulder City15,0002.41 ppb
Big Bend Water District9,0001.89 ppb
Moapa Valley Water District8,5002 ppb
Primm Valley Casino Resorts7,0002 ppb
Southern Desert Correctional Ctr Ndoc6,2001.2 ppb

Next steps for Indian Springs, NV

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Indian Springs, 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 Indian Springs Water Co Inc 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.