Mountain Meadow Improvement District, UT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.3 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.
Who runs the water here
Mountain Meadow Improvement District serves about 80 people through 22 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Rich County, Utah. EPA system ID: UTAH17022; phone on file: 435-757-4757. 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 2016 (0.8 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mountain Meadow Improvement District is 0.8 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.3 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.8 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. Mountain Meadow Improvement District's 0.3 ppb sits at the 14th percentile in Utah and the 41st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
7 other systems share Rich County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mountain Meadow Improvement District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Randolph Town Water System | 470 | 1 ppb |
| Laketown | 380 | 1.1 ppb |
| Bridgerland Water Co | 240 | 1.5 ppb |
| Woodruff Town Water System | 200 | 2.9 ppb |
| Swan Creek Village Water Company Llc | 61 | 0.5 ppb |
| Deseret Land And Livestock | 29 | 0.3 ppb |
| Eden Ranch Water Company | 28 | 1.7 ppb |
Next steps for Woodruff, UT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Woodruff, 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 Mountain Meadow Improvement 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.