Dixie Deer Ssd, UT
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.8 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
Dixie Deer Ssd serves about 482 people through 350 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Washington County, Utah. EPA system ID: UTAH27003; phone on file: 435-668-1223. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is down 20.7 ppb from 24.5 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Dixie Deer Ssd is 24.5 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 24.5 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 3.7 ppb |
How Dixie Deer Ssd 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. Dixie Deer Ssd's 3.8 ppb sits at the 81st percentile in Utah and the 86th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
37 other systems share Washington County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Dixie Deer Ssd. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| St George City Water System | 105,240 | 1.4 ppb |
| Washington City | 45,865 | 2.1 ppb |
| Hurricane City | 25,555 | 0.5 ppb |
| Ivins | 10,465 | 2.3 ppb |
| Santa Clara City | 9,000 | 0.6 ppb |
| Hildale - Colorado City | 6,100 | 1 ppb |
| La Verkin City Water System | 4,500 | 2.21 ppb |
| Zion Canyon Water System | 3,380 | 3.15 ppb |
| Enterprise Town Water System | 2,200 | 1.6 ppb |
| Toquerville Town Water System | 1,931 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Enterprise, 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 Dixie Deer Ssd 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.