Emigration Improvement District, UT
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 11.2 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
About Emigration Improvement District
Emigration Improvement District serves about 1,000 people through 331 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 Salt Lake County, Utah. EPA system ID: UTAH18143; phone on file: 801-243-5741. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Emigration Improvement District's lead record
That is up 5.8 ppb from 5.4 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Emigration Improvement District is 15.2 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 11.2 ppb over 10 |
| 2023 | 5.4 ppb |
| 2022 | 6.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 9.2 ppb |
| 2020 | 7.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 10 ppb |
| 2016 | 15.2 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. Emigration Improvement District's 11.2 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Utah and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
38 other systems share Salt Lake County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Emigration Improvement District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Salt Lake City Water System | 383,612 | 2.51 ppb |
| Granger-Hunter Improvement District | 121,083 | 1.9 ppb |
| West Jordan City Water System | 117,025 | 2.5 ppb |
| Sandy City Water System | 99,750 | 2.92 ppb |
| Jordan Valley Wcd | 99,335 | 5.05 ppb |
| South Jordan City | 89,704 | 4.1 ppb |
| Taylorsville-Bennion Id | 67,098 | 3.3 ppb |
| Herriman City Municipal Water Department | 60,000 | 3.8 ppb |
| University Of Utah | 57,080 | 5.5 ppb |
| Kearns Improvement District | 56,700 | 1.3 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Salt Lake City, 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 Emigration Improvement District whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1434.8 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.