Emery, UT
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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.
Emery at a glance
Emery serves about 315 people through 182 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 surface water, in Emery County, Utah. EPA system ID: UTAH08003; phone on file: 435-381-5333. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Emery's lead record
That is down 22 ppb from 23 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Emery is 23 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 23 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 0.6 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. Emery's 1 ppb sits at the 29th percentile in Utah and the 52nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Emery County
10 other systems share Emery County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Emery. 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 |
| Cleveland Water System | 509 | 3.4 ppb |
| Elmo Town | 368 | 6.5 ppb |
| Clawson Water System | 200 | 1.8 ppb |
| Trail Cyn Residents Assn | 62 | 0.69 ppb |
Your move
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 Emery 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.