South Ogden City Water System, UT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.41 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.
Who runs the water here
South Ogden City Water System serves about 17,500 people through 5,600 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 surface water, in Weber County, Utah. EPA system ID: UTAH29017; phone on file: 801-622-2904. 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 1.29 ppb from 3.7 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for South Ogden City Water System is 3.7 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.41 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.7 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.23 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.15 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.15 ppb |
How South Ogden 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. South Ogden City Water System's 2.41 ppb sits at the 65th percentile in Utah and the 77th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
31 other systems share Weber County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than South Ogden City Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ogden City Water System | 87,267 | 1.9 ppb |
| Roy City Water System | 38,800 | 1.7 ppb |
| Bona Vista Water District | 29,000 | 2.7 ppb |
| North Ogden City | 22,000 | 1.1 ppb |
| Hooper Water Improvement District | 20,820 | 3.3 ppb |
| Taylor-West Weber Wid | 9,900 | 0 (not detected) |
| Washington Terrace City Water System | 9,260 | 1.8 ppb |
| Pleasant View Culinary Water | 9,250 | 1.7 ppb |
| Riverdale City Water System | 8,945 | 0.71 ppb |
| West Haven Ssd | 3,360 | 0.86 ppb |
Next steps for Ogden, UT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Ogden, 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 South Ogden 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.