Cedar Point, City Of, KS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.5 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2022). 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.
Cedar Point, City Of at a glance
Cedar Point, City Of serves about 27 people through 24 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 Chase County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2001706; phone on file: 620-382-5503. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2018 (2.9 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cedar Point, City Of is 3.5 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.9 ppb |
How Cedar Point, 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. Cedar Point, City Of's 3.5 ppb sits at the 85th percentile in Kansas and the 85th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Chase County
6 other systems share Chase County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cedar Point, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Cottonwood Falls, City Of | 821 | 0 (not detected) |
| Strong City, City Of | 455 | 0.7 ppb |
| Chase Co Rwd 1 | 330 | 3.2 ppb |
| Matfield Green, City Of | 52 | 1.35 ppb |
| Elmdale, City Of | 42 | 2.3 ppb |
| Public Wholesale Wsd 26 | 1 | - |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Cedar Point, 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 Cedar Point, 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.