Murray City Water System, UT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.3 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.
Murray City Water System at a glance
Murray City Water System serves about 38,723 people through 11,590 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 groundwater, in Salt Lake County, Utah. EPA system ID: UTAH18024; phone on file: 801-270-2443. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Murray City Water System's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (2.2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Murray City Water System is 3.6 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.6 ppb |
How Murray City Water System 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. Murray City Water System's 1.3 ppb sits at the 40th percentile in Utah and the 61st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
38 other systems share Salt Lake County; 27 of them have a higher latest lead result than Murray City Water System. 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; West Jordan, 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 Murray City 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.