Sl County Service Area No 3 - Snowbird, 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.
Sl County Service Area No 3 - Snowbird at a glance
Sl County Service Area No 3 - Snowbird serves about 5,110 people through 170 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized 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: UTAH18031; phone on file: 801-278-9660. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 2.9 ppb from 4.2 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sl County Service Area No 3 - Snowbird is 4.2 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2025 | 4.2 ppb |
| 2025 | 4.2 ppb |
| 2025 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2024 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 2.7 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. Sl County Service Area No 3 - Snowbird's 1.3 ppb sits at the 40th percentile in Utah and the 61st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Salt Lake County
38 other systems share Salt Lake County; 27 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sl County Service Area No 3 - Snowbird. 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; Salt Lake City, 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 Sl County Service Area No 3 - Snowbird 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.