Heber City Water System, UT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.7 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Heber City Water System at a glance
Heber City Water System serves about 19,000 people through 5,209 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Wasatch County, Utah. EPA system ID: UTAH26006; phone on file: 435-654-3275. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2025 (2.7 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Heber City Water System is 3.8 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2025 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 3 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.8 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. Heber City Water System's 2.7 ppb sits at the 69th percentile in Utah and the 79th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
19 other systems share Wasatch County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Heber City Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Midway City Water System | 7,055 | 1.6 ppb |
| Twin Creeks Ssd | 4,640 | 0.9 ppb |
| Jordanelle Ssd | 2,345 | 0 (not detected) |
| Timber Lakes Water Ssd | 1,560 | 2.2 ppb |
| Hideout Town Water System | 1,429 | 0 (not detected) |
| North Village Ssd | 1,280 | 0.6 ppb |
| Daniel Municipal Water | 590 | 0.9 ppb |
| Charleston Wcd | 484 | 4.3 ppb |
| Wallsburg Town Water System | 440 | 4.6 ppb |
| Oak Haven Water Company | 388 | 1.7 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Heber 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 Heber City 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.