Cawker City, City Of, KS
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Cawker City, City Of
Cawker City, City Of serves about 447 people through 399 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 Mitchell County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2012303; phone on file: 785-781-4713. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Cawker City, City Of's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cawker City, City Of is 8.7 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 8.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.9 ppb |
How Cawker City, 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. Cawker City, City Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 15th percentile in Kansas and the 21st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Mitchell County
8 other systems share Mitchell County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Cawker City, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Beloit, City Of | 3,407 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mitchell Co Rwd 3 | 2,048 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mitchell Co Rwd 2 | 873 | 0 (not detected) |
| Glen Elder, City Of | 359 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mitchell Co Rwd 1 | 345 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tipton, City Of | 188 | 2 ppb |
| Simpson, City Of | 81 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hunter, City Of | 51 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Cawker City, City Of's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Cawker City, 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.