Arnold Waterworks Inc, KS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.7 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Arnold Waterworks Inc at a glance
Arnold Waterworks Inc serves about 40 people through 11 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Ness County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2013506; phone on file: 785-731-2762. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 10.6 ppb from 14.3 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Arnold Waterworks Inc is 14.3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3.7 ppb |
| 2021 | 14.3 ppb over 10 |
| 2018 | 0.8 ppb |
Against other Kansas systems
Of the 832 Kansas systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1.4 ppb; 2 are over 15 ppb right now and 35 have gone over at some point. Arnold Waterworks Inc's 3.7 ppb sits at the 86th percentile in Kansas and the 86th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
5 other systems share Ness County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Arnold Waterworks Inc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ness City, City Of | 1,303 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bazine, City Of | 279 | 0.6 ppb |
| Ransom, City Of | 253 | 2 ppb |
| Utica, City Of | 101 | 0.8 ppb |
| Brownell, City Of | 24 | 6.7 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Arnold, KS may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Arnold Waterworks Inc whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.