Richville, UT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.9 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.
About Richville
Richville serves about 254 people through 68 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: UTAH15012; phone on file: 801-458-0738. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Richville's lead record
That is up 3.6 ppb from 1.3 ppb in the period ending 2016. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Richville is 4.9 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4.9 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.3 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Richville's 4.9 ppb sits at the 87th percentile in Utah and the 90th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
10 other systems share Morgan County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Richville. 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 |
| Hidden Hollow Water Company | 99 | 17.9 ppb |
| Monte Verde | 93 | 2.2 ppb |
| Croydon Pipeline Corporation | 92 | 0.9 ppb |
| South Robinson Springs Water Users | 28 | - |
What to do in your house
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 Richville 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.