Mayfield Town Water System, UT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.1 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2023). 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
Mayfield Town Water System serves about 617 people through 275 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Sanpete County, Utah. EPA system ID: UTAH20006; phone on file: 435-528-5061. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 3.4 ppb from 6.5 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mayfield Town Water System is 8.1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 3.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 6.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.9 ppb |
| 2016 | 8.1 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. Mayfield Town Water System's 3.1 ppb sits at the 75th percentile in Utah and the 83rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
19 other systems share Sanpete County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mayfield Town Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ephraim City | 7,000 | 4.5 ppb |
| Mount Pleasant City | 4,040 | 2.2 ppb |
| Gunnison City | 3,509 | 2 ppb |
| Manti City | 3,429 | 1.7 ppb |
| Fairview City Water System | 2,092 | 3 ppb |
| Centerfield Town Water System | 1,700 | 1.7 ppb |
| Moroni City | 1,600 | 0.6 ppb |
| Fountain Green | 1,275 | 3.1 ppb |
| Spring City | 1,050 | 1.9 ppb |
| Twin Oaks Local District | 323 | 6.6 ppb |
Next steps for Mayfield, UT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Mayfield, 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 Mayfield Town 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.