Best Friends Animal Society, UT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.9 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
About Best Friends Animal Society
Best Friends Animal Society serves about 47 people through 145 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Kane County, Utah. EPA system ID: UTAH13049; phone on file: 435-274-7522. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2016 (0.4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Best Friends Animal Society is 0.9 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.4 ppb |
Where this result ranks
Of the 521 Utah systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1.71 ppb; 8 are over 15 ppb right now and 27 have gone over at some point. Best Friends Animal Society's 0.9 ppb sits at the 24th percentile in Utah and the 49th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
12 other systems share Kane County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Best Friends Animal Society. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Kanab City | 4,985 | 3.1 ppb |
| Kane County Wcd - Duck Creek Village | 3,029 | 0.8 ppb |
| Kane County Wcd - Johnson Canyon | 900 | 2.2 ppb |
| Orderville Town Water System | 805 | 1.7 ppb |
| Glen Canyon Nra - Bullfrog | 690 | 0.3 ppb |
| Glen Canyon Ssd Of Big Water | 480 | 0 (not detected) |
| Glendale Town Water System | 411 | 6.21 ppb |
| Church Wells Ssd | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Elkridge Water Company | 178 | - |
| Alton Town Water System | 136 | 3 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Glendale, UT may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Best Friends Animal Society whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.