Cleveland Water System, UT
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.4 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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Cleveland Water System serves about 509 people through 208 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Emery County, Utah. EPA system ID: UTAH08039; phone on file: 435-381-5333. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Cleveland Water System's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (3.4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cleveland Water System is 15.9 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2025 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.9 ppb |
| 2016 | 15.9 ppb over 15 |
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. Cleveland Water System's 3.4 ppb sits at the 78th percentile in Utah and the 85th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Emery County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Cleveland Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Huntington - Castle Valley Ssd | 2,129 | 2.4 ppb |
| Castledale | 1,700 | 2.7 ppb |
| Ferron - Castle Valley Ssd | 1,660 | 2.2 ppb |
| North Emery Ssd | 1,452 | 3 ppb |
| Orangeville | 1,420 | 1.7 ppb |
| Green River City | 910 | 1.3 ppb |
| Elmo Town | 368 | 6.5 ppb |
| Emery | 315 | 1 ppb |
| Clawson Water System | 200 | 1.8 ppb |
| Trail Cyn Residents Assn | 62 | 0.69 ppb |
Next steps for Castledale, UT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Castledale, 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 Cleveland 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. More in what a past exceedance means today.