Cedar Vale, City Of, KS
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Who runs the water here
Cedar Vale, City Of serves about 475 people through 290 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 Chautauqua County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2001902; phone on file: 620-758-2244. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Cedar Vale, City Of's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cedar Vale, City Of is 0 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Cedar Vale, City Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 15th percentile in Kansas and the 22nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Chautauqua County
9 other systems share Chautauqua County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cedar Vale, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sedan, City Of | 1,005 | 3.4 ppb |
| Chautauqua Co Rwd 4 | 475 | 1.6 ppb |
| Chautauqua Co Rwd 2 | 278 | 4.3 ppb |
| Chautauqua Co Rwd 3 | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chautauqua Co Rwd 1 | 135 | 0.6 ppb |
| Chautauqua, City Of | 110 | 0 (not detected) |
| Peru, City Of | 105 | 1 ppb |
| Elgin, City Of | 56 | 2.2 ppb |
| Public Wholesale Wsd 20 | 1 | - |
Your move
Look up your address in Cedar Vale, 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 Cedar Vale, 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.