Silver Springs Mutual Water Company, NV
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 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.
About Silver Springs Mutual Water Company
Silver Springs Mutual Water Company serves about 3,070 people through 1,185 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Lyon County, Nevada. EPA system ID: NV0000223; phone on file: 775-577-2223. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 7 ppb from 8 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Silver Springs Mutual Water Company is 8 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 ppb |
| 2023 | 8 ppb |
| 2020 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 4 ppb |
How Silver Springs Mutual 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. Silver Springs Mutual Water Company's 1 ppb sits at the 52nd percentile in Nevada and the 54th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Lyon County
5 other systems share Lyon County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Silver Springs Mutual Water Company. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Fernley Public Works | 23,064 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dayton Valley Water System | 16,000 | 1.9 ppb |
| Yerington City Of | 5,050 | 2.7 ppb |
| Stagecoach Gid | 1,628 | 0 (not detected) |
| Weed Heights Development | 340 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Silver 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 Silver Springs Mutual 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.