Garigans Gulch Water Coop, AZ
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.63 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.
Who runs the water here
Garigans Gulch Water Coop serves about 35 people through 17 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Pima County, Arizona. EPA system ID: AZ0410481; phone on file: 520-647-0343. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Garigans Gulch Water Coop's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Garigans Gulch Water Coop is 1.5 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.63 ppb |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.5 ppb |
Against other Arizona systems
Of the 730 Arizona systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0 ppb; 9 are over 15 ppb right now and 58 have gone over at some point. Garigans Gulch Water Coop's 0.63 ppb sits at the 71st percentile in Arizona and the 45th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
137 other systems share Pima County; 33 of them have a higher latest lead result than Garigans Gulch Water Coop. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Tucson City Of | 732,906 | 0.65 ppb |
| Metropolitan Dwid | 45,570 | 0.57 ppb |
| Oro Valley Water Utility | 42,316 | 1 ppb |
| Community Wc Of Green Valley | 22,085 | 0 (not detected) |
| Usaf Davis Monthan Afb | 18,640 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sahuarita Water Company | 18,178 | 0 (not detected) |
| Vail Water Company | 17,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Flowing Wells Irrigation District | 16,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Marana Municipal - Marana | 15,162 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tucson Water Corona De Tucson | 10,217 | 0.78 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Vail, AZ 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 Garigans Gulch Water Coop 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.