High Creek Water Co, UT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2027). 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
High Creek Water Co serves about 120 people through 38 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Cache County, Utah. EPA system ID: UTAH03086; phone on file: 435-757-9072. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (3.5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for High Creek Water Co is 3.5 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2027 | 3 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.5 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. High Creek Water Co's 3 ppb sits at the 72nd percentile in Utah and the 81st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
21 other systems share Cache County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than High Creek Water Co. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Logan City Water System | 55,540 | 2.2 ppb |
| Hyrum City | 10,891 | 3.4 ppb |
| Smithfield City | 10,223 | 4 ppb |
| Providence City Water System | 9,690 | 1.5 ppb |
| Nibley City Water | 9,200 | 1.6 ppb |
| North Logan City | 8,500 | 2.7 ppb |
| Wellsville City Water System | 4,190 | 2.8 ppb |
| River Heights City | 2,195 | 11.7 ppb |
| Lewiston City | 2,078 | 1.3 ppb |
| Millville City | 1,900 | 4 ppb |
Next steps for Cove, UT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Cove, 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 High Creek Water 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.