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Is Paradise, NV tap water safe?

Las Vegas Valley Water District serves Paradise, 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

Las Vegas Valley Water District serves Paradise. In EPA’s records it has 3 results above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Lithium at 43.3 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

The water from Las Vegas Valley Water District is very hard, 280 mg/L (16.4 grains per gallon). How it compares.

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 Las Vegas Valley Water District’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Paradise

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

  • Veritas Laboratories

    Las Vegas, NV · about 3 miles

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

    (702) 321-8315

  • EFFEX Analytical Services

    Las Vegas, NV · about 3 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, metals, minerals and other inorganics

    (702) 367-1187

  • Silver State Analytical Laboratories - Las Vegas

    Las Vegas, NV · about 3 miles

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

    (775) 531-5042

All 52 certified labs for Nevada

ZIP codes in Paradise

Which ZIP codes are in Paradise: 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 Paradise

Other towns in Clark County with a page of their own.

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