Willow Creek Water Co, UT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.2 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.
Willow Creek Water Co at a glance
Willow Creek Water Co serves about 175 people through 71 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Box Elder County, Utah. EPA system ID: UTAH02062; phone on file: 801-554-9560. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Willow Creek Water Co's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (2.2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Willow Creek Water Co is 2.2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2025 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.2 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. Willow Creek Water Co's 2.2 ppb sits at the 60th percentile in Utah and the 75th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
33 other systems share Box Elder County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Willow Creek Water Co. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Brigham City Water System | 20,540 | 0.8 ppb |
| Tremonton City | 13,000 | 1 ppb |
| Perry City | 6,570 | 1.3 ppb |
| West Corinne Water Co | 1,970 | 1.1 ppb |
| Honeyville Town Water System | 1,750 | 6.7 ppb |
| South Willard | 1,500 | 1.1 ppb |
| Ukon Water Company | 1,465 | 1.4 ppb |
| Elwood Town | 1,300 | 2.3 ppb |
| Mantua Town Water System | 1,200 | 1.8 ppb |
| Riverside-North Garland Water Co | 1,193 | 2.2 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Beaverdam, 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 Willow Creek Water Co 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.