Community Water System · PWSID 093200165

Ft. Mcdermitt Paiute-Shoshone - Lower

Serves 456 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Native AmericanMcdermitt, Nevada
2 open treatment violations.

Open for: Groundwater Rule, Revised Total Coliform Rule. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 1996: 54 violations. 4 treatment lapses · 40 missed or late tests · 10 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-10-17.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

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

0Over the limit
4Treatment lapse2 open
40Missed or late test
10Notice or report

More violations on record than 94% 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

1996 · Missed or late test: 21998 · Missed or late test: 12000 · Notice or report: 120002001 · Notice or report: 12002 · Notice or report: 12004 · Notice or report: 12005 · Notice or report: 1200520102011 · Missed or late test: 22014 · Missed or late test: 312014 · Missed or late test: 312014 · Missed or late test: 312014 · Missed or late test: 312014 · Missed or late test: 312014 · Missed or late test: 312014 · Missed or late test: 312014 · Missed or late test: 312014 · Missed or late test: 312014 · Missed or late test: 312014 · Missed or late test: 312014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Treatment lapse: 22019 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Treatment lapse: 22020 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square ≈ 3 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
7% treatment lapse · 474% missed or late test · 4019% notice or report · 10

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

What you can do

  • Total Coliform Bacteria: If your water system has coliform violations, consider boiling water or using bottled water until the system confirms the issue is resolved. Contact your water provider for their latest test results and any boil-water advisories.

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

below 1 ppb
below 1 ppb
below 1 ppb

Open now (2)

  1. 2020-12-31Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  2. 2019-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTBack in compliance
  2. 2020-12-31Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  3. 2020-11-24Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  4. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  5. 2020-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  6. 2019-12-31Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  7. 2019-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  8. 2019-10-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2019-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2018-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2016-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2015-02-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2014-10-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2014-01-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2014-01-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2014-01-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2014-01-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2014-01-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2014-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2014-01-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2014-01-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2014-01-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2014-01-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2014-01-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2014-01-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
Show the other 29 entries
  1. 2014-01-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2014-01-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2014-01-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2014-01-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2014-01-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2014-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2014-01-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2014-01-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2014-01-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2014-01-01Thallium, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2014-01-01Beryllium, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2014-01-01Antimony, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2014-01-01SeleniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2014-01-01MercuryMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2014-01-01FluorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2014-01-01CyanideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2014-01-01ChromiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2014-01-01CadmiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2014-01-01BariumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2011-06-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  21. 2011-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2005-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  23. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  24. 2002-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  25. 2001-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  26. 2000-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  27. 1998-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  28. 1996-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  29. 1996-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served456
Service connections103
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerNative American
StatusActive
CityMcdermitt
EPA ZIP on file89421

Areas served

  • Fort Mcdermitt

Reading this record

Ft. Mcdermitt Paiute-Shoshone - Lower is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 456 people in Mcdermitt, 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.