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Is Cedar Fort, UT tap water safe?

3 utilities serve Cedar Fort, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and Utah’s records show for each, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

2 of the 3 utilities serving Cedar Fort have a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and Utah’s records: Eagle Mountain City and Cedar Fort Water System.

Eagle Mountain City, which serves the most people here, has 3 results above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 220 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

The water from Eagle Mountain City is hard to very hard depending on the source, 169 to 593 mg/L (9.9 to 34.7 grains per gallon). How Utah’s water compares.

A town can be served by more than one utility, and some homes are on private wells. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours, and your ZIP code narrows it down. They are listed by how many people each serves in Cedar Fort’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in Eagle Mountain City’s water, which serves the most people here. Another utility’s report names what handles its own results.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Cedar Fort

A utility tests the water it sends out. A test of your own tap shows what your pipes add, and on a private well it is the only test there is. It takes a lab Utah certifies.

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

  • Jordan Valley Laboratory

    Herriman, UT · about 14 miles

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

    (801) 446-2000

  • Chemtech-Ford, Inc.

    Sandy, UT · about 22 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts, PFAS, radioactivity

    (801) 262-7299

  • Provo Water Resources Laboratory

    Provo, UT · about 24 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (801) 852-6796

All 60 certified labs for Utah

ZIP codes in Cedar Fort

Which ZIP codes are in Cedar Fort: Census 2020 relationship files. Which utilities serve them, and how many people: EPA SDWIS and EPA’s service area map. Each utility’s results: EPA UCMR 5, EPA SDWIS, and EPA’s and the state’s compliance monitoring, as its report lists them. How they are measured: methodology. Certified labs: Utah Department of Environmental Quality, Division of Drinking Water, certified laboratories; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

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