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Francis Town Water System, UT

Lead detected, under the action levels

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.5 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.

Francis Town Water System at a glance

Francis Town Water System serves about 1,700 people through 600 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 Summit County, Utah. EPA system ID: UTAH22004; phone on file: 435-300-6186. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.

Francis Town Water System's lead record

Against the period ending 2024 (2.5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Francis Town Water System is 6.6 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.

Period ending90th-percentile lead
20242.5 ppb
20242.5 ppb
20211.6 ppb
20211.6 ppb
20166.6 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. Francis Town Water System's 2.5 ppb sits at the 66th percentile in Utah and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).

Nearby utilities

26 other systems share Summit County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Francis Town Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.

SystemPeopleLatest lead
Park City Water System8,8751.9 ppb
Mountain Regional Water Ssd8,2454.5 ppb
Summit Water Distribution Company6,0003.8 ppb
Gorgoza Mutual Water Co4,3268.2 ppb
Kamas City Water System2,2002 ppb
Oakley Town Water System1,8001 ppb
Coalville City Water System1,5902.1 ppb
Pine Meadow Mutual Water1,2513.7 ppb
Summit County Service Area #31,1400 (not detected)
Henefer Town Water System8821.3 ppb

Next steps for Francis, UT

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Francis, 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 Francis Town 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.