Community Water System · PWS NV0000042
Empire Mining Company
Operator location Gerlach, Nevada - 0% of 306 violations are health-based (lower-third health share (≤ 1%)); groundwater source; 350 served per SDWIS.
- 350
- People served (this PWS)
- 306
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 0
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Empire Mining Company standing, high SDWIS violation third
0% of 306 recorded violations are health-based - lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 0% is lower-third health share (≤ 1%).
The verdict
Empire Mining Company sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (306), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (350; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is only 0% - almost all of this trail is monitoring or reporting. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 306
- Total EPA violations on record
- 0%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 350
- People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
- N/A
- PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Private
- Connections
- 127
- County
- Washoe
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 289
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 26 | 2024 |
| Chlorine | MR | 25 | 2023 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 19 | 2023 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 16 | 2024 |
| TTHM | MR | 16 | 2024 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 10 | 2008 |
| Nitrate | MR | 6 | 2016 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 6 | 2021 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | RPT | 6 | 2023 |
| Nickel | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 3 | 2014 |
| Diquat | MR | 3 | 2014 |
| Endothall | MR | 3 | 2014 |
| Glyphosate | MR | 3 | 2014 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 3 | 2014 |
| Picloram | MR | 3 | 2014 |
| Dinoseb | MR | 3 | 2014 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 3 | 2014 |
| Carbofuran | MR | 3 | 2014 |
| Atrazine | MR | 3 | 2014 |
| LASSO | MR | 3 | 2014 |
| Heptachlor | MR | 3 | 2014 |
| HEXACHLOROBENZENE | MR | 3 | 2014 |
| Pentachlorophenol | MR | 3 | 2014 |
| 1,2-DIBROMO-3-CHLOROPROPANE | MR | 3 | 2014 |
| ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE | MR | 3 | 2014 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 3 | 2016 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 3 | 2016 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Empire Mining Company has 306 recorded EPA violations, 91% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 9% carry more. 0% of this system's own violations are health-based (0 of 306), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
306 Higher than most more violations than 91% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Health-based violations on Empire Mining Company
0 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for NV0000042.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
306 violations · 350 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with comparable violation load
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
What to do with Empire Mining Company
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