Cascade Academy, UT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.3 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.
Cascade Academy at a glance
Cascade Academy serves about 75 people through 3 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Weber County, Utah. EPA system ID: UTAH29119; phone on file: 435-881-6626. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Cascade Academy's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (0.3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cascade Academy is 1.1 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.3 ppb |
| 2025 | 0.3 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 1.1 ppb |
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. Cascade Academy's 0.3 ppb sits at the 14th percentile in Utah and the 41st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
31 other systems share Weber County; 25 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cascade Academy. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ogden City Water System | 87,267 | 1.9 ppb |
| Roy City Water System | 38,800 | 1.7 ppb |
| Bona Vista Water District | 29,000 | 2.7 ppb |
| North Ogden City | 22,000 | 1.1 ppb |
| Hooper Water Improvement District | 20,820 | 3.3 ppb |
| South Ogden City Water System | 17,500 | 2.41 ppb |
| Taylor-West Weber Wid | 9,900 | 0 (not detected) |
| Washington Terrace City Water System | 9,260 | 1.8 ppb |
| Pleasant View Culinary Water | 9,250 | 1.7 ppb |
| Riverdale City Water System | 8,945 | 0.71 ppb |
Next steps for Farmington, UT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Farmington, 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 Cascade Academy 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.