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Cascade Academy

What EPA’s and Utah’s records show in this utility’s water: nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals; lead and copper; and violations since 2016, with the certification that handles each result.

Serves
75 people
Connections
3
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Farmington, UT
County
Weber
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

84317

The short answer

1 result is above the health goal. The worst: Lead, above the health goal. 2 health-based violations since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 2013 to 2025.

Nitrate, arsenic, chromium (total) and fluoride: Utah’s own results, samples taken from Dec. 16, 2020 to Dec. 10, 2025, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM): EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from Oct. 24, 2014 to Oct. 24, 2014. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Above the health goal1

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the health goal

0.3ppb

90th percentile, 2023 to 2025

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 0.3 ppb, below EPA’s action level of 15 ppb. The action level drops to 10 ppb on Nov. 1, 2027. EPA’s health goal for lead is zero.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits1

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

1.3ppm

Highest sample; found in 6 of 6

2025, one sample: 1.1 ppm

The highest sample, in 2023, was 1.3 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2025, the latest year on file, its one sample was 1.1 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 1.2 ppm, in 2017.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”
4 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Chromium (total)
  • Fluoride
  • Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

What handles it

A certification covers specific claims, not a whole standard. Look for these claims on the certifier’s listing, not the box. Wording varies a little: NSF writes “Lead Reduction,” WQA just “Lead.”

At the tap, or for the whole house?

Lead and copper usually come from pipes and fixtures inside or near your home. A whole-house system sits where water enters, so it cannot catch what your own plumbing adds after it. For those, the filter that counts is the one at the tap. How whole-house systems compare.

Filters with those claims on a certifier’s listing

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Violations since 2016

Contaminant or ruleTypePeriodMeasuredStatus
Revised Total Coliform RuleColiform results required a check of the system, and the check or its fixes were not done on time.EPA: Treatment Technique, Level 1 Assessment (RTCR)July 21, 2016—Resolved
Groundwater RuleA significant problem found in a state inspection was not fixed on time.EPA: Failure To Address DeficiencyJan. 16, 2016—Resolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 8 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Nitrate, arsenic, chromium (total) and fluoride results here are Utah’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) comes from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. Cascade Academy’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has newer results for those and the contaminants this page does not show.

  • Your own plumbing. Lead results are the 90th percentile across homes the utility samples. Your home’s service line, solder and fixtures decide yours. A certified lab test is the only way to know.

  • What it means for your health. This page reports what the records show and EPA’s limits and goals; it is not medical advice. If you are worried about a health effect, talk to a doctor or your local health department.

  • Anything after the latest data. SDWIS data is from 2026 Q3; UCMR 5 didn’t sample this utility; Utah’s results run from Dec. 16, 2020 to Dec. 10, 2025; EPA’s compliance samples are from Oct. 24, 2014 to Oct. 24, 2014.

Testing your own tap

Cascade Academy’s results are for the water it sends out. What your own service line, solder and fixtures add shows up only in a test of your tap, by a lab Utah certifies.

The 3 labs Utah certifies closest to the area Cascade Academy serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Weber Basin Water Quality Laboratory

    Layton, UT · about 20 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, disinfection byproducts

    (801) 771-1677

  • RJ Analytical LLC

    Pleasant View, UT · about 21 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (801) 807-8248

  • Northrup Grumman Space Systems Environmental Laboratory

    Corinne, UT · about 23 miles

    Certified for nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics

    (801) 863-8117

All 60 certified labs for Utah

Sources

PWSID UTAH29119. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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