Bothwell Town Water System, UT
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Bothwell Town Water System at a glance
Bothwell Town Water System serves about 237 people through 116 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 Box Elder County, Utah. EPA system ID: UTAH02003; phone on file: 435-494-2475. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bothwell Town Water System is 2.9 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 2.9 ppb |
How Bothwell Town Water System compares
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. Bothwell Town Water System's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 5th percentile in Utah and the 16th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Box Elder County
33 other systems share Box Elder County; 28 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bothwell Town Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Brigham City Water System | 20,540 | 0.8 ppb |
| Tremonton City | 13,000 | 1 ppb |
| Perry City | 6,570 | 1.3 ppb |
| West Corinne Water Co | 1,970 | 1.1 ppb |
| Honeyville Town Water System | 1,750 | 6.7 ppb |
| South Willard | 1,500 | 1.1 ppb |
| Ukon Water Company | 1,465 | 1.4 ppb |
| Elwood Town | 1,300 | 2.3 ppb |
| Mantua Town Water System | 1,200 | 1.8 ppb |
| Riverside-North Garland Water Co | 1,193 | 2.2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Bothwell Town Water System's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Bothwell Town Water System 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.