Clay Co Rwd 2, KS
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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
Clay Co Rwd 2 serves about 950 people through 354 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 groundwater, in Clay County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2002710; phone on file: 785-632-0454. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Clay Co Rwd 2's lead record
That is down 1.2 ppb from 1.2 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Clay Co Rwd 2 is 3.2 ppb across 14 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2016 | 1 ppb |
How Clay Co Rwd 2 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. Clay Co Rwd 2's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 21st 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.
Other water systems in Clay County
8 other systems share Clay County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Clay Co Rwd 2. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Clay Center, City Of | 4,138 | 1 ppb |
| Wakefield, City Of | 846 | 5.84 ppb |
| Morganville, City Of | 183 | 3.4 ppb |
| Clay Co Rwd 1 | 105 | 0 (not detected) |
| Green, City Of | 97 | 3.01 ppb |
| Longford, City Of | 73 | 0 (not detected) |
| Twin Lakes Mhp | 60 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hawks Landing | 51 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Clay Co Rwd 2'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 Clay Co Rwd 2 whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1500 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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.