Sahuarita Water Company, AZ
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Sahuarita Water Company at a glance
Sahuarita Water Company serves about 18,178 people through 7,002 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Pima County, Arizona. EPA system ID: AZ0410312; phone on file: 520-399-1105. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (0.5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sahuarita Water Company is 0.5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
Against other Arizona systems
Of the 730 Arizona systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0 ppb; 9 are over 15 ppb right now and 58 have gone over at some point. Sahuarita Water Company's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 64th percentile in Arizona and the 38th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Pima County
137 other systems share Pima County; 44 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sahuarita Water Company. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Tucson City Of | 732,906 | 0.65 ppb |
| Metropolitan Dwid | 45,570 | 0.57 ppb |
| Oro Valley Water Utility | 42,316 | 1 ppb |
| Community Wc Of Green Valley | 22,085 | 0 (not detected) |
| Usaf Davis Monthan Afb | 18,640 | 0 (not detected) |
| Vail Water Company | 17,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Flowing Wells Irrigation District | 16,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Marana Municipal - Marana | 15,162 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tucson Water Corona De Tucson | 10,217 | 0.78 ppb |
| Green Valley Dwid | 8,687 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Sahuarita Water Company'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 Sahuarita Water Company 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.