Summit County Service Area #3, UT
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Who runs the water here
Summit County Service Area #3 serves about 1,140 people through 229 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Summit County, Utah. EPA system ID: UTAH22105; phone on file: 435-500-6276. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Summit County Service Area #3's lead record
Against the period ending 2016 (0.9 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Summit County Service Area #3 is 0.9 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0.9 ppb |
How Summit County Service Area #3 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. Summit County Service Area #3's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 10th percentile in Utah and the 27th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
26 other systems share Summit County; 24 of them have a higher latest lead result than Summit County Service Area #3. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Park City Water System | 8,875 | 1.9 ppb |
| Mountain Regional Water Ssd | 8,245 | 4.5 ppb |
| Summit Water Distribution Company | 6,000 | 3.8 ppb |
| Gorgoza Mutual Water Co | 4,326 | 8.2 ppb |
| Kamas City Water System | 2,200 | 2 ppb |
| Oakley Town Water System | 1,800 | 1 ppb |
| Francis Town Water System | 1,700 | 2.5 ppb |
| Coalville City Water System | 1,590 | 2.1 ppb |
| Pine Meadow Mutual Water | 1,251 | 3.7 ppb |
| Henefer Town Water System | 882 | 1.3 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Summit County Service Area #3'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 Summit County Service Area #3 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.