Bicknell Town, UT
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 11.2 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Who runs the water here
Bicknell Town serves about 380 people through 249 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Wayne County, Utah. EPA system ID: UTAH28001; phone on file: 435-691-1710. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.1 ppb from 10.1 ppb in the period ending 2016. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bicknell Town is 11.2 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (2 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 11.2 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 10.1 ppb over 10 |
Against other Utah systems
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. Bicknell Town's 11.2 ppb sits at the 97th percentile in Utah and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Wayne County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bicknell Town. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Capitol Reef National Park | 1,070 | 5.8 ppb |
| Torrey Town Water System | 550 | 1 ppb |
| Loa Town Water System | 490 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fremont Waterworks Co | 350 | 2.6 ppb |
| Lyman Water System | 235 | 0.3 ppb |
| Hanksville Town Water System | 210 | 1.2 ppb |
| Teasdale Ssd | 180 | 0.3 ppb |
| Bicknell Bottoms | 45 | 2.1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bicknell, 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 Bicknell Town 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.