Bumblebee Water System, UT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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.
Who runs the water here
Bumblebee Water System serves about 75 people through 56 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Iron County, Utah. EPA system ID: UTAH11089; phone on file: 435-865-9901. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2025 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bumblebee Water System is 3.3 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.5 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. Bumblebee Water System's 1 ppb sits at the 27th percentile in Utah and the 51st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
27 other systems share Iron County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bumblebee Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Cedar City Waterworks | 39,670 | 0 (not detected) |
| Enoch City Water System | 6,500 | 0.9 ppb |
| Cedar Valley Water Conservancy | 3,995 | 0.18 ppb |
| Parowan City Water System | 3,000 | 6.7 ppb |
| Brian Head Town Water System | 1,038 | 2.4 ppb |
| Mid Valley Estates | 753 | 0 (not detected) |
| Paragonah Town Water System | 600 | 2.4 ppb |
| Kanarraville Town Water System | 452 | 6 ppb |
| Buena Vista Community | 440 | 3.55 ppb |
| New Castle Water Company | 350 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Cedar City, UT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Cedar City, 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 Bumblebee 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.