Tooele City Water System

Water Quality Snapshot: Tooele City Water System

Tooele City Water System is a local-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 37,100 residents in Tooele, Utah (Tooele County) through 11,647 service connections. Its water is drawn from groundwater sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 1,670 total violations for this system , of which 12 (1%) are health-based, meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 1,633 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2024.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is Endrin, recorded in 56 violations (MR). This system was sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program and no PFAS compounds were detected above the minimum reporting level.

Across Utah, EPA tracks 1,068 public water systems serving 3,870,776 people, with 169,784 cumulative violations and 10,671 health-based violations on record. About 98% of systems in the state carry at least one violation, and state-wide the average per system is 159 violations. Statewide, 91 of 129 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (70.5%).

Tooele City Water System's 1,670 violations sit above the Utah average.

All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.