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Is Mountain Green, UT tap water safe?

3 utilities serve Mountain Green, 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

3 of the 3 utilities serving Mountain Green have a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and Utah’s records: Morgan City Water System, Cottonwood Mutual and Highlands Water Company Inc.

Morgan City Water System, which serves the most people here, has 2 results above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 23 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

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 Mountain Green’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 Morgan City Water System’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 Mountain Green

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 Mountain Green, 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 14 miles

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

    (801) 771-1677

  • Summit County Health Department Laboratory

    Coalville, UT · about 16 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

    (435) 336-3234

  • Davis County Environmental Health Laboratory

    Clearfield, UT · about 19 miles

    Certified for bacteria, minerals and other inorganics

    (801) 525-5115

All 60 certified labs for Utah

ZIP codes in Mountain Green

Which ZIP codes are in Mountain Green: 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.