Clark Bench Water Company, UT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.4 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. 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.
Clark Bench Water Company at a glance
Clark Bench Water Company serves about 71 people through 21 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Kane County, Utah. EPA system ID: UTAH13060; phone on file: 435-644-3997. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Clark Bench Water Company's lead record
That is down 1.2 ppb from 1.6 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Clark Bench Water Company is 1.6 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.4 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 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. Clark Bench Water Company's 0.4 ppb sits at the 16th percentile in Utah and the 42nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Kane County
12 other systems share Kane County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Clark Bench Water Company. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Kanab City | 4,985 | 3.1 ppb |
| Kane County Wcd - Duck Creek Village | 3,029 | 0.8 ppb |
| Kane County Wcd - Johnson Canyon | 900 | 2.2 ppb |
| Orderville Town Water System | 805 | 1.7 ppb |
| Glen Canyon Nra - Bullfrog | 690 | 0.3 ppb |
| Glen Canyon Ssd Of Big Water | 480 | 0 (not detected) |
| Glendale Town Water System | 411 | 6.21 ppb |
| Church Wells Ssd | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Elkridge Water Company | 178 | - |
| Alton Town Water System | 136 | 3 ppb |
Next steps for Kanab, UT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Kanab, 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 Clark Bench Water Company 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.