Monte Verde, UT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.2 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
Monte Verde at a glance
Monte Verde serves about 93 people through 28 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Morgan County, Utah. EPA system ID: UTAH15007; phone on file: 801-876-3479. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Monte Verde's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (2.61 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Monte Verde is 3.67 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.61 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.67 ppb |
How Monte Verde 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. Monte Verde's 2.2 ppb sits at the 59th percentile in Utah and the 75th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Morgan County
10 other systems share Morgan County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Monte Verde. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Morgan City Water System | 4,520 | 1.3 ppb |
| Cottonwood Mutual | 3,145 | 3.4 ppb |
| Highlands Water Company Inc | 1,200 | 1.5 ppb |
| Peterson Pipeline Association | 510 | 1 ppb |
| Wasatch Peaks Ranch | 490 | 1.4 ppb |
| Central Enterprise Water Co | 425 | 3.5 ppb |
| Richville | 254 | 4.9 ppb |
| Hidden Hollow Water Company | 99 | 17.9 ppb |
| Croydon Pipeline Corporation | 92 | 0.9 ppb |
| South Robinson Springs Water Users | 28 | - |
Next steps for Morgan, UT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Morgan, 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 Monte Verde 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.