Searchlight Water Company, NV
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.8 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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
Searchlight Water Company serves about 760 people through 484 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Clark County, Nevada. EPA system ID: NV0000219; phone on file: 702-862-3776. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Searchlight Water Company's lead record
Against the period ending 2020 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Searchlight Water Company is 1 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Searchlight Water Company 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. Searchlight Water Company's 0.8 ppb sits at the 45th percentile in Nevada and the 48th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
44 other systems share Clark County; 26 of them have a higher latest lead result than Searchlight Water Company. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Las Vegas Valley Water District | 1,539,277 | 2.08 ppb |
| North Las Vegas Utilities | 376,515 | 1.38 ppb |
| Henderson City Of | 336,534 | 3.8 ppb |
| Virgin Valley Water District | 26,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nellis Air Force Base | 19,081 | 6.66 ppb |
| Boulder City | 15,000 | 2.41 ppb |
| Big Bend Water District | 9,000 | 1.89 ppb |
| Moapa Valley Water District | 8,500 | 2 ppb |
| Primm Valley Casino Resorts | 7,000 | 2 ppb |
| Southern Desert Correctional Ctr Ndoc | 6,200 | 1.2 ppb |
Next steps for Las Vegas, NV
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Las Vegas, 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 Searchlight Water Company 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.