Boulder Farmstead Water Co, UT
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.5 ppb (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 result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Boulder Farmstead Water Co at a glance
Boulder Farmstead Water Co serves about 277 people through 198 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Garfield County, Utah. EPA system ID: UTAH09002; phone on file: 435-335-7444. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (0.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Boulder Farmstead Water Co is 117.2 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 117.2 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 117.2 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 2.4 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. Boulder Farmstead Water Co's 0.5 ppb sits at the 16th percentile in Utah and the 43rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
11 other systems share Garfield County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Boulder Farmstead Water Co. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Panguitch City Water System | 1,800 | 0.7 ppb |
| Escalante Town Water System | 800 | 1.8 ppb |
| Rubys Inn | 700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tropic Town Water System | 586 | 3.8 ppb |
| Bryce Canyon National Park | 351 | 10.2 ppb |
| Cannonville Town Water System | 245 | 1 ppb |
| Hatch Town Water System | 234 | - |
| Henrieville Town Water System | 221 | 9.8 ppb |
| Antimony Town Water System | 135 | 2.1 ppb |
| Ticaboo Utility Improvement District | 73 | 0.6 ppb |
Next steps for Boulder, UT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Boulder, 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 Boulder Farmstead Water Co 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.