Community Water System · PWS NV0000300
Desert Utilities
Operator location Pahrump, Nevada - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 264 EPA violations; groundwater source; 1,086 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 1,086
- People served (this PWS)
- 264
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 3
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Desert Utilities standing, high SDWIS violation third
264 EPA SDWIS violations on record - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 1% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #18,731 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Desert Utilities sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (264), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,086 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 1% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #18,731 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #107 of 155
- Population · NV
- 264
- Total EPA violations on record
- 1%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
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
- 488
- County
- Nye
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 3
- Monitoring Violations
- 228
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 7 | 2009 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 6 | 1999 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 6 | 1999 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 6 | 1999 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 6 | 1999 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 6 | 1999 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 6 | 1999 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 6 | 1999 |
| Toluene | MR | 6 | 1999 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 6 | 1999 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 6 | 1999 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 6 | 1999 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 6 | 1999 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 6 | 1999 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 6 | 1999 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 6 | 1999 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 6 | 1999 |
| Benzene | MR | 6 | 1999 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 6 | 1999 |
| Styrene | MR | 6 | 1999 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 6 | 1999 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 6 | 1999 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 3 | 1999 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 3 | 1999 |
| Aldicarb sulfoxide | MR | 3 | 1999 |
| Aldicarb sulfone | MR | 3 | 1999 |
| Aldicarb | MR | 3 | 1999 |
| Atrazine | MR | 3 | 1999 |
| LASSO | MR | 3 | 1999 |
| Heptachlor epoxide | MR | 3 | 1999 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Desert Utilities has 264 recorded EPA violations, 89% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 11% carry more. 1% of this system's own violations are health-based (3 of 264), and it ranks #18,731 of 29,740 by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
264 Higher than most more violations than 89% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
SDWIS compliance record for Desert Utilities
264 violations on record for NV0000300; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
264 violations · 1,086 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.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Desert Utilities
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