Meadows Ranch, UT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.57 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
Meadows Ranch at a glance
Meadows Ranch serves about 350 people through 190 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Iron County, Utah. EPA system ID: UTAH11045; phone on file: 435-691-1115. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Meadows Ranch's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (2.57 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Meadows Ranch is 2.57 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.57 ppb |
| 2025 | 2.57 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.25 ppb |
How Meadows Ranch 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. Meadows Ranch's 2.57 ppb sits at the 67th percentile in Utah and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
27 other systems share Iron County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Meadows Ranch. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Cedar City Waterworks | 39,670 | 0 (not detected) |
| Enoch City Water System | 6,500 | 0.9 ppb |
| Cedar Valley Water Conservancy | 3,995 | 0.18 ppb |
| Parowan City Water System | 3,000 | 6.7 ppb |
| Brian Head Town Water System | 1,038 | 2.4 ppb |
| Mid Valley Estates | 753 | 0 (not detected) |
| Paragonah Town Water System | 600 | 2.4 ppb |
| Kanarraville Town Water System | 452 | 6 ppb |
| Buena Vista Community | 440 | 3.55 ppb |
| New Castle Water Company | 350 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Cedar City, UT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Cedar City, 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 Meadows Ranch 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.