Sun Valley Gid, NV
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Sun Valley Gid at a glance
Sun Valley Gid serves about 17,000 people through 6,889 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Washoe County, Nevada. EPA system ID: NV0000211; phone on file: 775-673-7700. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Sun Valley Gid's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sun Valley Gid is 2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 1 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. Sun Valley Gid's 2 ppb sits at the 75th percentile in Nevada and the 73rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
21 other systems share Washoe County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sun Valley Gid. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Truckee Meadows Water Authority | 442,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Great Basin Water Co Cold Springs | 9,910 | 0 (not detected) |
| Incline Village Gid | 9,313 | 1.4 ppb |
| Great Basin Water Co Spanish Springs | 1,450 | 0 (not detected) |
| Steamboat Springs Waterworks Inc | 998 | 0 (not detected) |
| Verdi Meadows Utility Company Inc | 510 | 0 (not detected) |
| Empire Mining Company | 350 | 0 (not detected) |
| Grandview Terrace Water District | 328 | 1 ppb |
| Gerlach Gid | 180 | 2 ppb |
| Lightning W | 163 | 1.1 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Sun Valley, 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 Sun Valley Gid 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.