Vernal City Water System, UT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.7 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.
Vernal City Water System at a glance
Vernal City Water System serves about 10,000 people through 3,229 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 surface water, in Uintah County, Utah. EPA system ID: UTAH24012; phone on file: 435-781-7132. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (1.1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Vernal City Water System is 1.9 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.9 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. Vernal City Water System's 0.7 ppb sits at the 22nd percentile in Utah and the 47th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
9 other systems share Uintah County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Vernal City Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ashley Valley Water And Sewer Id | 13,835 | 7.1 ppb |
| Maeser Improvement District | 4,152 | 4.1 ppb |
| Tridell Lapoint Wid | 1,525 | 13.7 ppb |
| Jensen Wid | 1,375 | 1.7 ppb |
| Ballard Water Improvement District | 1,005 | 4.1 ppb |
| Ouray Park Water Improvement District | 300 | 1.1 ppb |
| Pine Meadows Pud | 224 | 0.58 ppb |
| Mile High Village | 188 | 0.19 ppb |
| Central Utah Wcd - Ashley Valley | - | - |
Next steps for Vernal, UT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Vernal, 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 Vernal 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.