LVVWD Organizational Governance:

• LVVWD is a not-for-profit, political subdivision of the state
• Began service in 1954.
• Governed by a Board of Directors represented by the Clark County Commission.

Business Profile:

• LVVWD is the operating agent of SNWA
• LVVWD serves ~375,000 customer accounts across 300 square miles, including the City of Las Vegas, unincorporated Clark County, Blue Diamond, Coyote Springs, Jean, Kyle Canyon, Laughlin (Big Bend Water District), and Searchlight.
• The LVVWD provides water service to 1.5 million residence and 40 million annual visitors.

• LVVWD: Retail water agency providing municipal water delivery
• All indoor water use is reclaimed and recycled back to Lake Mead, used for golf course irrigation and/or power production.

• Groundwater applications and permitted rights from various basins throughout NV (LVVWD has ~41,000 afy in Las Vegas Valley)
• LVVWD maintains 79 basins and tanks that hold nearly a billion gallons of water
• LVVWD maintains 53 pumping stations that can move 1 million gallons/minute
• LVVWD maintains 6,500 miles of transmission and distribution lines
• LVVWD maintains 76 production wells and 26 recharge wells producing more than 200 mgd
• All facility and service connections are metered. The LVVWD maintains more than 400,000 water meters.
• LVVWD owns and operates the Springs Preserve a 180-acre museum complex and nature preserve that promotes conservation and stewardship of cultural and environmental resources

• Treatment of water drawn from Lake Mead: disinfection using ozone, aeration for odor control, flocculation using a multi-layered filter composed of anthracite coal, silica, sand, and garnet sand, chlorine is added as it leaves the system
• Treatment of water drawn from ground: only treated with chlorine as it enters the distribution system
• LVVWD bills customers monthly based on water consumption.