Deseret Feedlot, UT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.4 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.
Who runs the water here
Deseret Feedlot serves about 60 people through 10 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Utah County, Utah. EPA system ID: UTAH25044; phone on file: 385-312-2181. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Deseret Feedlot is 2.4 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.4 ppb |
How Deseret Feedlot compares
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. Deseret Feedlot's 2.4 ppb sits at the 64th percentile in Utah and the 76th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Utah County
42 other systems share Utah County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Deseret Feedlot. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Provo City | 116,288 | 4.3 ppb |
| Orem City Water System | 98,129 | 2.2 ppb |
| Lehi City | 93,446 | 3 ppb |
| Saratoga Springs City | 68,000 | 1.7 ppb |
| Eagle Mountain City | 61,266 | 1.5 ppb |
| Spanish Fork City | 47,169 | 1 ppb |
| Pleasant Grove City | 40,000 | 1.4 ppb |
| American Fork City | 39,045 | 3.7 ppb |
| Springville City | 35,516 | 1.1 ppb |
| Highland City | 22,000 | 1.7 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Elberta, 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 Deseret Feedlot 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.