Fremont Waterworks Co, UT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.6 ppb (monitoring period 2020-2022). 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.
Fremont Waterworks Co at a glance
Fremont Waterworks Co serves about 350 people through 212 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 groundwater, in Wayne County, Utah. EPA system ID: UTAH28002; phone on file: 435-749-2110. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fremont Waterworks Co is 2.6 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.6 ppb |
Against other Utah systems
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. Fremont Waterworks Co's 2.6 ppb sits at the 68th percentile in Utah and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
8 other systems share Wayne County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fremont Waterworks Co. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Capitol Reef National Park | 1,070 | 5.8 ppb |
| Torrey Town Water System | 550 | 1 ppb |
| Loa Town Water System | 490 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bicknell Town | 380 | 11.2 ppb |
| Lyman Water System | 235 | 0.3 ppb |
| Hanksville Town Water System | 210 | 1.2 ppb |
| Teasdale Ssd | 180 | 0.3 ppb |
| Bicknell Bottoms | 45 | 2.1 ppb |
Next steps for Loa, UT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Loa, 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 Fremont Waterworks Co 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.