Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID NV0002190

Amargosa Elementary School

Serves 200 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentPahrump, NevadaServes a school or daycare
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On record since 1980: 20 violations. 13 over the limit · 7 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2025-07-01.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

13Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
7Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 85% of active water systems in Nevada. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

1980 · Missed or late test: 119801981 · Missed or late test: 11984 · Missed or late test: 21984 · Missed or late test: 219851987 · Missed or late test: 11988 · Missed or late test: 119901992 · Missed or late test: 119951999 · Over the limit: 1200020052010201520202022 · Over the limit: 12023 · Over the limit: 42023 · Over the limit: 42023 · Over the limit: 42023 · Over the limit: 42024 · Over the limit: 42024 · Over the limit: 42024 · Over the limit: 42024 · Over the limit: 42025 · Over the limit: 32025 · Over the limit: 32025 · Over the limit: 32025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
65% over the limit · 1335% missed or late test · 7

Across Nevada, 77% of violations are missed or late tests and 9% are water over a limit.

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Arsenic2025-07-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0130 MG/L vs limit 0.0100 MG/L (1.3×)2025-04-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0140 MG/L vs limit 0.0100 MG/L (1.4×)2025-01-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0140 MG/L vs limit 0.0100 MG/L (1.4×)2024-10-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0140 MG/L vs limit 0.0100 MG/L (1.4×)2024-07-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0130 MG/L vs limit 0.0100 MG/L (1.3×)2024-04-01 · Arsenic: measured 13.00 UG/L vs limit 10.00 UG/L (1.3×)2024-01-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0130 UG/L vs limit 0.0100 UG/L (1.3×)2023-10-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0120 MG/L vs limit 0.0100 MG/L (1.2×)2023-07-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0120 MG/L vs limit 0.0100 MG/L (1.2×)2023-04-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0120 MG/L vs limit 0.0100 MG/L (1.2×)2023-01-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0110 MG/L vs limit 0.0100 MG/L (1.1×)2022-10-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0110 MG/L vs limit 0.0100 MG/L (1.1×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

10 ppb
7 ppb
1.7 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0130 MG/L · limit 0.0100 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-04-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0140 MG/L · limit 0.0100 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-01-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0140 MG/L · limit 0.0100 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-10-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0140 MG/L · limit 0.0100 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-07-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0130 MG/L · limit 0.0100 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-04-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 13.00 UG/L · limit 10.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2024-01-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0130 UG/L · limit 0.0100 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2023-10-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0120 MG/L · limit 0.0100 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2023-07-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0120 MG/L · limit 0.0100 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2023-04-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0120 MG/L · limit 0.0100 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2023-01-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0110 MG/L · limit 0.0100 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2022-10-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0110 MG/L · limit 0.0100 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 1999-05-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  14. 1992-07-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  15. 1988-03-31Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 1987-09-30Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 1984-10-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 1984-01-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 1981-07-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 1980-10-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance

System details

Population served200
Service connections8
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityPahrump
EPA ZIP on file89048

Areas served

  • Nye County

Reading this record

Amargosa Elementary School is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 200 people in Pahrump, Nevada. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.