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Esmeralda County, Nevada

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet NV009 · Esmeralda County 6 sys · 322 viol · #3119/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-MID · RANK-BOTTOM · BELOW-PEER · PFAS-NONE · SRC-GW · SYS-TINY · BOOK-MOST

  • VIOL-SEVERE 83.3% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 24.5% health
  • RANK-BOTTOM #3119/3254
  • BELOW-PEER 4.2 pp cleaner
  • PFAS-NONE No UCMR5 set
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-TINY 6 systems
  • BOOK-MOST 6/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Nye County (+ 4.2 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Esmeralda County ranks #3,119 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #17 of 17 counties in Nevada. See methodology · corpus placement.

Esmeralda County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 83.3% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 24.5% is health-based share in the middle third (≤ 24.5%) . No UCMR5 tests in this extract for Esmeralda County . Population served ranks #3,119 of 3,254 · #17 of 17 in Nevada.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Esmeralda County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Esmeralda County on % of SDWIS systems with ≥1 violation. Full ladder: /counties.

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Esmeralda · this county · lowest Clark · near 83.3% 87.5% 88.9% 91% 92.9% 100%

Source: EPA SDWIS (county aggregates) As of 2026-05-15

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Lower-flagged peers for Esmeralda County

Cross-state counties nearest Esmeralda County on flagged-system share (83.3%) and cumulative violation count (322). In-state neighbours stay on the compliance plate above.

Similar flagged-system rate

Nearest cross-state counties by % of SDWIS systems with at least one violation on record.

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Similar violation load

Nearest cross-state counties by cumulative SDWIS violation count (all systems in the county).

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Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater

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