DrinkingWaterCheck

What's in ELY MUNICIPAL WATER DEPARTMENT's water?

ELY MUNICIPAL WATER DEPARTMENT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 5,000 people get their water from it, across 2,301 connections.

ELY MUNICIPAL WATER DEPARTMENT's record against the rest of the country

ELY MUNICIPAL WATER DEPARTMENT has 140 violations on record in total, 4 of thems health-based - ranking it 3,918th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 70th percentile nationally.

How ELY MUNICIPAL WATER DEPARTMENT compares within NV

ELY MUNICIPAL WATER DEPARTMENT's 4 health-based violations sit within the NV average of 5.1, across 42 systems statewide. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.

Most recent violation on record

The last violation EPA has on record for ELY MUNICIPAL WATER DEPARTMENT is from 2025-01-07 (health-based: 2015-01-08). Last reported to EPA: 06/17/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

ELY MUNICIPAL WATER DEPARTMENT's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:

The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.

What this data is and is not

Everything on this page is ELY MUNICIPAL WATER DEPARTMENT's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 4 health-based violations on file for ELY MUNICIPAL WATER DEPARTMENT - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.