East Duchesne Culinary Wid, UT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.8 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. 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.
East Duchesne Culinary Wid at a glance
East Duchesne Culinary Wid serves about 1,000 people through 427 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 surface water, in Duchesne County, Utah. EPA system ID: UTAH07051; phone on file: 435-823-0736. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 3.9 ppb from 5.7 ppb in the period ending 2016. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for East Duchesne Culinary Wid is 5.7 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2016 | 5.7 ppb |
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. East Duchesne Culinary Wid's 1.8 ppb sits at the 52nd percentile in Utah and the 67th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
14 other systems share Duchesne County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than East Duchesne Culinary Wid. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Roosevelt City Water System | 8,000 | 5.3 ppb |
| Duchesne County Upper Country Wid | 2,100 | 1.2 ppb |
| Johnson Water District | 2,065 | 0.8 ppb |
| Duchesne Water System | 2,000 | 0.92 ppb |
| Fruitland Water Ssd | 1,162 | 1.4 ppb |
| Myton City | 1,075 | 1.5 ppb |
| Pinion Forest Ssd | 640 | 1.1 ppb |
| Neola Water And Sewer District | 490 | 4.7 ppb |
| Cedarview Montwell Ssd | 445 | 1.3 ppb |
| Hanna Water & Sewer Improvement District | 405 | 1 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Duchesne, 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 East Duchesne Culinary Wid 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.