Washington County Wcd - Sand Hollow, UT
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.7 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Washington County Wcd - Sand Hollow serves about 425 people through 193 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Washington County, Utah. EPA system ID: UTAH27073; phone on file: 435-673-3617. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 35.1 ppb from 38.8 ppb in the period ending 2016. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Washington County Wcd - Sand Hollow is 38.8 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.7 ppb |
| 2016 | 38.8 ppb over 15 |
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. Washington County Wcd - Sand Hollow's 3.7 ppb sits at the 80th percentile in Utah and the 86th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Washington County
37 other systems share Washington County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Washington County Wcd - Sand Hollow. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| St George City Water System | 105,240 | 1.4 ppb |
| Washington City | 45,865 | 2.1 ppb |
| Hurricane City | 25,555 | 0.5 ppb |
| Ivins | 10,465 | 2.3 ppb |
| Santa Clara City | 9,000 | 0.6 ppb |
| Hildale - Colorado City | 6,100 | 1 ppb |
| La Verkin City Water System | 4,500 | 2.21 ppb |
| Zion Canyon Water System | 3,380 | 3.15 ppb |
| Enterprise Town Water System | 2,200 | 1.6 ppb |
| Toquerville Town Water System | 1,931 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; St George, 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 Washington County Wcd - Sand Hollow 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.