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Rubys Inn

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
700 people
Connections
70
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Tropic, UT
County
Garfield
Owner
Private
Hardness
Very hard
The ZIP code it serves

84764

The short answer

Nothing in EPA’s and Utah’s records for this utility is above a health goal. That covers nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals, plus lead and copper, not everything. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What was found

Fluoride, arsenic, chromium (total) and nitrate: Utah’s own results, samples taken from Sept. 1, 2020 to Sept. 10, 2025, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Below EPA’s limits1

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.21ppm

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2023

2023, one sample: 0.16 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.21 ppm, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. In 2023, the latest year on file, its one sample was 0.16 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 0.2 ppm, in 2012.

What handles it

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

Hardness

Very hard, 309 mg/L (18.1 grains per gallon), at its one sampling point, in 2018.

Hardness is calcium and magnesium. EPA sets no limit for it: it shows up as scale on fixtures and in water heaters, and as soap that won’t lather. USGS calls water above 60 mg/L moderately hard, above 120 hard and above 180 very hard.

Softeners compared at 18.1 grains per gallon, salt includedSoftener or salt-free conditioner?Utah water hardness, utility by utility

Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 42 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Fluoride, arsenic, chromium (total) and nitrate results here are Utah’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Rubys Inn’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has 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 Sept. 1, 2020 to Sept. 10, 2025.

Testing your own tap

Rubys Inn’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 lab Utah certifies closest to the area Rubys Inn serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Southern Utah University Water Laboratory

    Cedar City, UT · about 50 miles

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

    (435) 586-7914

All 60 certified labs for Utah

Sources

PWSID UTAH09012. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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