Blue Mound, City Of, KS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.6 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
About Blue Mound, City Of
Blue Mound, City Of serves about 223 people through 135 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Linn County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2010701; phone on file: 913-756-2447. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2025 (2.5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Blue Mound, City Of is 14 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2025 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2023 | 14 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 4 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.1 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Blue Mound, City Of's 2.6 ppb sits at the 74th percentile in Kansas and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
11 other systems share Linn County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Blue Mound, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Anderson Co Rwd 1c | 2,112 | 1.8 ppb |
| Linn Co Rwd 2 | 1,960 | 6.9 ppb |
| Pleasanton, City Of | 1,238 | 6.2 ppb |
| Linn Co Rwd 1 | 1,200 | 12 ppb |
| Lacygne, City Of | 1,119 | 1.8 ppb |
| Linn Valley, City Of | 1,008 | 0 (not detected) |
| Linn Co Rwd 3 | 710 | 11 ppb |
| Mound City, City Of | 678 | 3 ppb |
| Parker, City Of | 236 | 3.6 ppb |
| Prescott, City Of | 207 | 3.3 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Blue Mound, 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 Blue Mound, City Of whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1682 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.