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Community Water System · PWS NV0000072

Goldfield Town Water

Operator location Goldfield, Nevada - 43% of 167 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 350 served per SDWIS.

350
People served (this PWS)
167
EPA violations (this PWS)
72
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Goldfield Town Water standing, high SDWIS violation third

43% of 167 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 43% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

Goldfield Town Water sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (167), 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 43% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

167
Total EPA violations on record
43%
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
Local
Connections
340
County
Esmeralda
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
72
Monitoring Violations
77
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Arsenic MCL 65 2021
Arsenic MR 49 2012
Chlorine MR 13 2022
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 9 2023
Coliform (TCR) MCL 7 2008
Coliform (TCR) MR 6 2012
Nitrate MR 6 2012
Combined Uranium MR 3 2007

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Goldfield Town Water has 167 recorded EPA violations, 83% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 17% carry more. 43% of this system's own violations are health-based (72 of 167), 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)

167 Higher than most more violations than 83% 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 Goldfield Town Water

72 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for NV0000072.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

167 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.

4 peers

What to do with Goldfield Town Water

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

  • See how every tracked system in Nevada compares on the same EPA violation measures. Nevada systems
  • Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

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