Lone Mountain - Well Water? (Las Vegas: buying a house, landscaping, buying)

[Croce]

Hi All,

Just discovered this forum. I'm considering buying a house in North/NorthWest Las Vegas. The community is considered Lone Mountain. My concern is that the home is served by a private well and septic. I researched the Water district website and it appears that they are presently pumping water into the aquifer from Lake Mead to maintain the water level.

Does anyone know of problems with private wells in this area? Connecting to the public main would be pretty expensive, because the home is a lot farther than the 180 feet that gets subsidized by the water company.

In any event, thanks in advance for any assistance. FWIW, I've done extensive research on many different communities for retirement. When considering everything - cost of living, entertainment, health care, climate, taxes, crime, etc., Las Vegas comes out on the top for my needs.

Cheers,
Croce

[olecapt]

There are two kinds of wells in the NW-Lone Mountain...Domestic and Quasi-Municpal. Quasi Municipal are shared wells with up to 12 homes or so on a single well..four often but sometimes more. Domestic are one per home on lots of more than an acre.

In this area of Las Vegas the water is generally better than the municipal water. These are reasonably deep aquifers and have little trouble with surface contamination.

You should find out the water level, the level from which you are pumping and the depth of the well. You want to know that the water level can drop 30 feet or so without forcing new drilling.

Water levels in Lone Mountain have been stable or increasing for ten years or so. The Southern Nevada Water Authority does not pumps its allocation. It did try to pump in Colorado River Water for a while but gave it up. When you think about it makes more sense not to pump then to pump out and then back in.

In general septics work well in this part of town. And with the deep aquifer there is small risk of contamination.

Note that quasi-municap wells are limited to 1000 gallons per day on average. Over half the wells over pump that though it is enough water with mostly desert landscaping. There is a well owners site at nevadawellowners.org. Enforcement of the limit has been nonexistent for the last 30 years but that could change.

I can go into more detail if you need but I don't want to write a paper on this list. Send me a PM with any questions.

[Croce]

Great info! Appreciate your response Olecapt and thanks for the website. I'll definitely check on the water table levels.

Best Regards,
Croce

[havreman]

Originally Posted by olecapt

There are two kinds of wells in the NW-Lone Mountain...Domestic and Quasi-Municpal. Quasi Municipal are shared wells with up to 12 homes or so on a single well..four often but sometimes more. Domestic are one per home on lots of more than an acre.

In this area of Las Vegas the water is generally better than the municipal water. These are reasonably deep aquifers and have little trouble with surface contamination.

You should find out the water level, the level from which you are pumping and the depth of the well. You want to know that the water level can drop 30 feet or so without forcing new drilling.

Water levels in Lone Mountain have been stable or increasing for ten years or so. The Southern Nevada Water Authority does not pumps its allocation. It did try to pump in Colorado River Water for a while but gave it up. When you think about it makes more sense not to pump then to pump out and then back in.

In general septics work well in this part of town. And with the deep aquifer there is small risk of contamination.

Note that quasi-municap wells are limited to 1000 gallons per day on average. Over half the wells over pump that though it is enough water with mostly desert landscaping. There is a well owners site at nevadawellowners.org. Enforcement of the limit has been nonexistent for the last 30 years but that could change.

I can go into more detail if you need but I don't want to write a paper on this list. Send me a PM with any questions.

You seem to know your stuff well, Olecapt! And here I thought you were a nut 100% of the time!