Paunsaugunt Cliffs Ssd, UT
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Paunsaugunt Cliffs Ssd at a glance
Paunsaugunt Cliffs Ssd serves about 56 people through 52 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 Garfield County, Utah. EPA system ID: UTAH09085; phone on file: 435-735-4364. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.8 ppb from 1.8 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Paunsaugunt Cliffs Ssd is 4.6 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2018 | 4.6 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. Paunsaugunt Cliffs Ssd's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 2nd percentile in Utah and the 4th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
11 other systems share Garfield County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Paunsaugunt Cliffs Ssd. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Panguitch City Water System | 1,800 | 0.7 ppb |
| Escalante Town Water System | 800 | 1.8 ppb |
| Rubys Inn | 700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tropic Town Water System | 586 | 3.8 ppb |
| Bryce Canyon National Park | 351 | 10.2 ppb |
| Boulder Farmstead Water Co | 277 | 0.5 ppb |
| Cannonville Town Water System | 245 | 1 ppb |
| Hatch Town Water System | 234 | - |
| Henrieville Town Water System | 221 | 9.8 ppb |
| Antimony Town Water System | 135 | 2.1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Paunsaugunt Cliffs Ssd's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Paunsaugunt Cliffs Ssd 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.