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Is Golden Valley, NV tap water safe?

Truckee Meadows Water Authority serves Golden Valley, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s records show for it, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

Truckee Meadows Water Authority serves Golden Valley. In EPA’s records it has 3 results above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029, 2 results above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: PFOS at 20 ppt, above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029.

Some homes in a town are on private wells or a small system of their own. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in Truckee Meadows Water Authority’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Golden Valley

A utility tests the water it sends out. A test of your own tap shows what your pipes add, and on a private well it is the only test there is. It takes a lab Nevada certifies.

The 3 labs Nevada certifies closest to Golden Valley, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Western Environmental Testing - Sparks

    Sparks, NV · about 12 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts, radioactivity

    (775) 355-0202

  • Nevada State Public Health Laboratory

    Reno, NV · about 12 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, radioactivity

    (775) 682-6205

  • Silver State Analytical Laboratories - Reno

    Reno, NV · about 15 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, radioactivity

    (775) 857-2400

All 52 certified labs for Nevada

ZIP codes in Golden Valley

Which ZIP codes are in Golden Valley: Census 2020 relationship files. Which utilities serve them, and how many people: EPA SDWIS and EPA’s service area map. Each utility’s results: EPA UCMR 5, EPA SDWIS, and EPA’s and the state’s compliance monitoring, as its report lists them. How they are measured: methodology. Certified labs: NDEP Laboratory Approval Status, drinking water parameters; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

Near Golden Valley

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