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Is Uintah, UT tap water safe?

5 utilities serve Uintah, 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

1 of the 5 utilities serving Uintah has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and Utah’s records: South Weber Water System.

Riverdale City Water System, which serves the most people here, has 2 results above the health goal. The worst: Arsenic at 1.3 ppb, above the health goal. 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 Uintah’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 Riverdale 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 Uintah

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 Uintah, 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 5 miles

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

    (801) 771-1677

  • Davis County Environmental Health Laboratory

    Clearfield, UT · about 7 miles

    Certified for bacteria, minerals and other inorganics

    (801) 525-5115

  • RJ Analytical LLC

    Pleasant View, UT · about 10 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (801) 807-8248

All 60 certified labs for Utah

ZIP codes in Uintah

Which ZIP codes are in Uintah: 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.

Near Uintah

Other towns in Weber County with a page of their own.

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