Kanab City, UT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.1 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.
About Kanab City
Kanab City serves about 4,985 people through 2,723 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Kane County, Utah. EPA system ID: UTAH13005; phone on file: 435-644-2534. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Kanab City's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (3.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Kanab City is 14.1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2019 | 14.1 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 2.9 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. Kanab City's 3.1 ppb sits at the 76th percentile in Utah and the 83rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Kane County
12 other systems share Kane County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Kanab City. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Kane County Wcd - Duck Creek Village | 3,029 | 0.8 ppb |
| Kane County Wcd - Johnson Canyon | 900 | 2.2 ppb |
| Orderville Town Water System | 805 | 1.7 ppb |
| Glen Canyon Nra - Bullfrog | 690 | 0.3 ppb |
| Glen Canyon Ssd Of Big Water | 480 | 0 (not detected) |
| Glendale Town Water System | 411 | 6.21 ppb |
| Church Wells Ssd | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Elkridge Water Company | 178 | - |
| Alton Town Water System | 136 | 3 ppb |
| Clark Bench Water Company | 71 | 0.4 ppb |
Next steps for Kanab, UT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Kanab, 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 Kanab City 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.