10 grains.
Softer than the rumor.
Cottonwood Heights publishes no hardness figure of its own. Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District, which supplies it, reports 170 mg/L — about 10 grains per gallon. That is hard water and it will scale, but it is at the mild end for the Salt Lake Valley, and it is roughly a third of what some softener companies will tell you to size for around here.
- We measure your real grains-per-gallon on site
- Right-sized system tuned for Cottonwood Heights water
- Licensed install & lifetime workmanship warranty
What Cottonwood Heights actually publishes about its water
Taken from the water utility's own reporting — not from a competitor's service-area page, and not estimated.
- Published hardness10 grains per gallon
- Where the water comes fromJVWCD figure (170 mg/L); city publishes none
- Who published itdistrict
- Source documentjvwcd.gov · live 2026
- Hardness scaleThe USGS classifies water above 180 mg/L as calcium carbonate (about 10.5 grains per gallon) as very hard, 121 to 180 mg/L as hard, and 61 to 120 mg/L as moderately hard. USGS
We publish the utility's own figures and link them so you can check us. Your tap is still what counts — hardness moves with the source and the season — so we measure before we size anything.
Right-sized softening for Cottonwood Heights
We measure your actual Cottonwood Heights hardness and household use, then install a system tuned for Utah water — no guesswork, no upsell.
Metered Softener
Demand-initiated regeneration — it only cycles when you’ve actually used the capacity. Maximum salt and water efficiency for your Cottonwood Heights home.
See metered systems →Utah-Tough Resin
High-capacity, fouling-resistant resin built to take on Cottonwood Heights’s mineral-heavy, sediment-laden water for years.
Why resin matters →Pro Installation
Licensed, insured, code-compliant install with a bypass loop — backed by a lifetime workmanship warranty.
How install works →Hard, but not what you have been told
At 170 mg/L Cottonwood Heights sits in the USGS hard band, not very hard. It still scales a water heater and it still spots glass, but the equipment that fixes it is smaller and cheaper than what gets quoted for the valley generally.
End the hard-water war in Cottonwood Heights.
We come to your Cottonwood Heights home, test your water, and size the right softener. Then we install it right — once.
Proudly serving Cottonwood Heights and the Wasatch Front — Salt Lake City, Sandy, Draper, Lehi and beyond.
