Fairfield Culinary Water System, UT
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.3 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
Fairfield Culinary Water System at a glance
Fairfield Culinary Water System serves about 120 people through 31 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: UTAH25011; phone on file: 801-921-0833. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (2.3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fairfield Culinary Water System is 24.3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2016 | 24.3 ppb over 15 |
How Fairfield Culinary Water System 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. Fairfield Culinary Water System's 2.3 ppb sits at the 63rd percentile in Utah and the 76th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
42 other systems share Utah County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fairfield Culinary Water System. 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; Fairfield, 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 Fairfield Culinary Water System 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.