Ironwood, UT

Lead detected, under the action levels

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.

About Ironwood

Ironwood serves about 125 people through 44 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Teton County, Utah. EPA system ID: ID7410047; phone on file: 801-735-7183. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.

Ironwood's lead record

That is up 2 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Ironwood is 2 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.

How Ironwood compares

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. Ironwood's 2 ppb sits at the 55th percentile in Utah and the 70th nationally (higher means more lead).

Your move

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Orem, 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 Ironwood 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.