Summit Vista Water Company, UT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.8 ppb (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. 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.
Summit Vista Water Company at a glance
Summit Vista Water Company serves about 630 people through 664 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Salt Lake County, Utah. EPA system ID: UTAH18178; phone on file: 385-695-2359. 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 1.5 ppb from 2.3 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Summit Vista Water Company is 2.3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 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. Summit Vista Water Company's 0.8 ppb sits at the 23rd percentile in Utah and the 48th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
38 other systems share Salt Lake County; 34 of them have a higher latest lead result than Summit Vista Water Company. 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 |
Next steps for Taylorsville, UT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Taylorsville, 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 Summit Vista 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.