Cherokee Co Rwd 9, 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.
About Cherokee Co Rwd 9
Cherokee Co Rwd 9 serves about 900 people through 405 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Cherokee County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2002120; phone on file: 620-249-1369. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is down 1.9 ppb from 1.9 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cherokee Co Rwd 9 is 7.7 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 7.7 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.1 ppb |
How Cherokee Co Rwd 9 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. Cherokee Co Rwd 9's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 20th percentile in Kansas and the 26th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
15 other systems share Cherokee County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cherokee Co Rwd 9. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Baxter Springs, City Of | 3,852 | 3.2 ppb |
| Columbus, City Of | 2,882 | 0 (not detected) |
| Galena, City Of | 2,743 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cherokee Co Rwd 3 | 1,900 | 2.4 ppb |
| Cherokee Co Rwd 4 | 1,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cherokee Co Rwd 8 | 1,235 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cherokee Co Rwd 2 | 943 | 0 (not detected) |
| Weir, City Of | 566 | 1.1 ppb |
| Cherokee Co Rwd 1 | 520 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cherokee Co Rwd 5 | 480 | 3.3 ppb |
Next steps for Riverton, KS
Look up your address in Cherokee Co Rwd 9'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 Cherokee Co Rwd 9 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.