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Is Indian Hills, NV tap water safe?

3 utilities serve Indian Hills, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s records show for each, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

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The short answer

None of the 3 utilities serving Indian Hills has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s records.

Indian Hills GID, which serves the most people here, has 3 results above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 74.4 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

A town can be served by more than one utility, and some homes are on private wells. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours, and your ZIP code narrows it down. They are listed by how many people each serves in Indian Hills’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in Indian Hills GID’s water, which serves the most people here. Another utility’s report names what handles its own results.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Indian Hills

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 Indian Hills, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Silver State Analytical Laboratories - Reno

    Reno, NV · about 30 miles

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

    (775) 857-2400

  • Nevada State Public Health Laboratory

    Reno, NV · about 32 miles

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

    (775) 682-6205

  • Western Environmental Testing - Sparks

    Sparks, NV · about 33 miles

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

    (775) 355-0202

All 52 certified labs for Nevada

ZIP codes in Indian Hills

Which ZIP codes are in Indian Hills: 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 Indian Hills

Towns nearby with a page of their own.

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