Magna Water District, UT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.7 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.
About Magna Water District
Magna Water District serves about 36,700 people through 9,496 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 surface water, in Salt Lake County, Utah. EPA system ID: UTAH18014; phone on file: 801-250-2118. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (1.9 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Magna Water District is 2.6 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.6 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. Magna Water District's 1.7 ppb sits at the 49th percentile in Utah and the 67th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
38 other systems share Salt Lake County; 25 of them have a higher latest lead result than Magna Water District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Salt Lake City Water System | 383,612 | 2.51 ppb |
| Granger-Hunter Improvement District | 121,083 | 1.9 ppb |
| West Jordan City Water System | 117,025 | 2.5 ppb |
| Sandy City Water System | 99,750 | 2.92 ppb |
| Jordan Valley Wcd | 99,335 | 5.05 ppb |
| South Jordan City | 89,704 | 4.1 ppb |
| Taylorsville-Bennion Id | 67,098 | 3.3 ppb |
| Herriman City Municipal Water Department | 60,000 | 3.8 ppb |
| University Of Utah | 57,080 | 5.5 ppb |
| Kearns Improvement District | 56,700 | 1.3 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Magna, 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 Magna Water District 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.