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Maple Lake 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
36 people
Connections
1
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Payson, UT
County
Utah
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

84660

The short answer

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

What handles it

What was found

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 2010 to 2023.

Nitrate, fluoride, arsenic and chromium (total): Utah’s own results, samples taken from March 17, 2020 to Sept. 22, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Uranium: EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from Nov. 17, 2017 to Nov. 17, 2017. 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

0.4ppb

90th percentile, 2021 to 2023

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 0.4 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 limits2

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

4.9ppm

Highest sample; found in 7 of 13

2026: not found

The highest sample, in 2021, was 4.9 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2026, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 5.8 ppm, in 2017.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.29ppm

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2025

2025 average: 0.23 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.29 ppm, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. Its highest single sample was 0.34 ppm. In 2025, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 0.23 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 0.51 ppm, in 2018.

What handles it

3 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Chromium (total)
  • Uranium

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
Groundwater RuleA significant problem found in a state inspection was not fixed on time.EPA: Failure To Address DeficiencyOct. 22, 2019—Resolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 15 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Nitrate, fluoride, arsenic and chromium (total) results here are Utah’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Uranium comes from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. Maple Lake 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 March 17, 2020 to Sept. 22, 2026; EPA’s compliance samples are from Nov. 17, 2017 to Nov. 17, 2017.

Testing your own tap

Maple Lake 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 Maple Lake Academy serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Provo Water Resources Laboratory

    Provo, UT · about 7 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (801) 852-6796

  • Jordan Valley Laboratory

    Herriman, UT · about 28 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics, disinfection byproducts

    (801) 446-2000

  • Wasatch County Health Department

    Heber City, UT · about 31 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (435) 657-3303

All 60 certified labs for Utah

Sources

PWSID UTAH25164. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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