Water by zip · 84118
Kearns water
Kearns Improvement District publishes an annual water quality report, and its 2025 report shows the water met or exceeded all federal and state drinking water standards with no violations. The district buys most of its supply wholesale from the Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District and pumps the rest from local wells. Every figure below comes from that official report.
Your water system
Kearns Improvement District
Source: About 94 percent is purchased from the Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District (sources include Jordanelle Reservoir, Deer Creek Reservoir, and local mountain springs and wells), and the remaining 6 percent comes from six wells in the Kearns area operated by the district.. Public water system ID UTAH18011.
The report lists total hardness (as calcium carbonate) at 182.7 ppm, which is roughly 10.7 grains per gallon, placing Kearns water in the hard range that commonly causes scale and spotting.
What stands out
Total dissolved solids
Total dissolved solids measured 764 ppm in the Kearns system, within the 1,000 ppm secondary standard. Higher TDS can affect taste and leave more mineral residue.
Arsenic, nitrate, and fluoride
Arsenic was 3.9 ppb (MCL 10 ppb), nitrate was 3.94 ppm (MCL 10 ppm), and fluoride was 0.827 ppm (MCL 4 ppm). All are comfortably below their federal limits.
Disinfection by-products and sulfate
Total trihalomethanes were 52.8 ppb (MCL 80 ppb) and sulfate measured 88.1 ppm (SMCL 250 ppm), both within standards.
This is a plain-language summary, not a substitute for your utility's official report. Kearns Improvement District 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.
If you would like better-tasting water at the tap, a drinking-water ionizer can raise pH and improve taste, while whole-home salt-free conditioning helps reduce the scale that hard water leaves on fixtures and appliances. The Well is happy to walk you through your options and offer a free water test so you can see your own numbers first.