Critical Facilities

What is Critical Infrastructure?  And why do you need to know about it?

NRS ((Nevada Revised Statutes)  493.109   Unmanned aerial vehicles: 

Operation near critical facility or within 5 miles of airport prohibited; exceptions; penalty.

A person shall not operate an unmanned aerial vehicle within:

(a) A horizontal distance of 500 feet or a vertical distance of 250 feet from a critical facility without the written consent of the owner of the critical facility.

(b) Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, 5 miles of an airport.

NRS 493.020  Definitions

“Critical facility” means a petroleum refinery,  a petroleum or chemical production,   transportation,  storage or processing facility, a chemical manufacturing facility, a pipeline and any appurtenance thereto, a wastewater treatment facility, a water treatment facility, a mine as that term is defined in NRS 512.006, a power generating station, plant or substation and any appurtenances thereto, any transmission line that is owned in whole or in part by an electric utility as that term is defined in subsection 6 of NRS 704.187 or owned, operated, inspected, maintained or repaired in whole or in part by the Colorado River Commission of Nevada pursuant to NRS 538.161 or 538.166, a county, city or town jail or detention facility and any prison, facility or institution under the control of the Department of Corrections

There are several wastewater treatment facilities, and water treatment facilities.  Among them are:

Regional Flood Control District (Clark County)  Interactive map

Clark County Water Reclamation District

North Las Vegas Water Reclamation Facility 

Las Vegas Valley Water District

Additional resources:

Read all of NRS 493

Utility Service Area Maps

Utility Companies in Clark County, Nevada