Burns, City Of, KS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.3 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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 Burns, City Of
Burns, City Of serves about 232 people through 128 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 groundwater, in Marion County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2011501; phone on file: 620-726-5819. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2020 (1.3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Burns, City Of is 2.3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.6 ppb |
How Burns, City Of compares
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. Burns, City Of's 2.3 ppb sits at the 69th percentile in Kansas and the 76th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
11 other systems share Marion County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Burns, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Hillsboro, City Of | 2,740 | 3.3 ppb |
| Marion, City Of | 1,902 | 0 (not detected) |
| Marion Co Rwd 4 | 1,398 | 1.3 ppb |
| Peabody, City Of | 932 | 0.5 ppb |
| Marion Co Rwd 1 | 780 | 0 (not detected) |
| Goessel, City Of | 558 | 4.3 ppb |
| Florence, City Of | 387 | 4.3 ppb |
| Marion Co Improvement Dist 2 | 234 | 0 (not detected) |
| Marion Co Rwd 2 | 175 | 1.92 ppb |
| Lehigh, City Of | 159 | 0.92 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Burns, 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 Burns, City Of 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.