Water by zip · 84003
American Fork water
American Fork City draws its culinary water entirely from local groundwater: two American Fork Canyon area springs and five city wells. The city's 2024 Water Quality Report shows every tested contaminant was within federal limits, with zero violations. The water meets all EPA and Utah Division of Drinking Water standards.
Your water system
American Fork City (Culinary)
Source: Groundwater: two springs (Power House and Timp Cave Camp) and five wells (Alpine Country Club, Boley, Golf Course, Hospital, and Race Track), with some water purchased from Cedar Hills City. Highland and Cedar Hills also share the 84003 area.. Public water system ID UTAH25008.
The 2024 CCR does not publish a hardness number, but with TDS of 300 to 352 ppm sourced from Wasatch groundwater and wells, American Fork water carries noticeable dissolved minerals, consistent with the hard water common across Utah Valley.
What stands out
Total dissolved solids (TDS)
The 2024 report lists TDS at 300 to 352 ppm (mg/L) across sources, well under the 2000 ppm limit. Dissolved minerals like this are what give Utah Valley groundwater its taste and mineral character.
Lead and copper at the tap
American Fork tested at a 90th-percentile of 2.2 ppb for lead and 81 ppb for copper, both far below the action levels of 15 ppb and 1300 ppb, with zero sample sites over the action level. The city also reports zero known lead service lines across its 11,200 connections.
Nitrate, fluoride, and sulfate
Nitrate ranged 0 to 782 ppb (limit 10,000), fluoride 0 to 265 ppb (limit 4000), and sulfate 62.8 to 79.9 ppm (limit 1000). All sit comfortably inside federal limits.
This is a plain-language summary, not a substitute for your utility's official report. American Fork City (Culinary) reports meeting federal drinking-water standards. For the full, current numbers, read the official report linked above.
What helps
What we would do about it.
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