Transient Non-Community · PWSID NV0000399

Sos Recovery Ranch

Serves 25 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateAlamo, Nevada
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On record since 2013: 39 violations. 10 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 27 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2025-04-01.

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10Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
27Missed or late test
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 91% 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

200520102013 · Over the limit: 12014 · Over the limit: 32014 · Over the limit: 32015 · Over the limit: 42015 · Over the limit: 420152016 · Over the limit: 12017 · Over the limit: 12017 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Treatment lapse: 120202023 · Missed or late test: 82023 · Missed or late test: 82023 · Missed or late test: 82023 · Missed or late test: 82024 · Missed or late test: 152024 · Missed or late test: 152024 · Missed or late test: 152024 · Missed or late test: 152024 · Missed or late test: 152024 · Missed or late test: 152024 · Missed or late test: 152024 · Missed or late test: 152025 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
26% over the limit · 103% treatment lapse · 169% missed or late test · 273% notice or report · 1

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×+Nitrate2017-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 11.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.1×)2016-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 13.70 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.4×)2015-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 10.60 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.1×)2015-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 11.30 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.1×)2015-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 11.20 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.1×)2015-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 13.30 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.3×)2014-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 10.80 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.1×)2014-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 12.70 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.3×)2014-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 11.90 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.2×)2013-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 11.40 MG/L vs limit 10.00 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.

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2025-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2024-12-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-11-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-09-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2024-08-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2024-07-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2024-06-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2024-05-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2024-04-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2024-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2024-03-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2024-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2024-02-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2024-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  16. 2024-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2024-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  18. 2023-12-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2023-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  20. 2023-11-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2023-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  22. 2023-10-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2023-09-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2023-08-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2023-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
Show the other 14 entries
  1. 2020-01-19Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  2. 2019-12-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  3. 2017-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2017-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2017-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 11.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  6. 2016-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 13.70 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  7. 2015-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 10.60 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2015-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 11.30 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2015-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 11.20 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2015-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 13.30 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  11. 2014-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 10.80 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  12. 2014-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 12.70 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  13. 2014-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 11.90 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  14. 2013-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 11.40 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance

System details

Population served25
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityAlamo
EPA ZIP on file89001

Areas served

  • Lincoln County

Reading this record

Sos Recovery Ranch is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 25 people in Alamo, 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.