Cowley Co Rwd 8, KS
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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 Cowley Co Rwd 8
Cowley Co Rwd 8 serves about 50 people through 20 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 Cowley County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2003515; phone on file: 620-218-0343. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is down 3 ppb from 3 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cowley Co Rwd 8 is 3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 3 ppb |
| 2018 | 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. Cowley Co Rwd 8's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 1st percentile in Kansas and the 3rd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Cowley County
14 other systems share Cowley County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cowley Co Rwd 8. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Arkansas City, City Of | 11,929 | 1.1 ppb |
| Winfield, City Of | 11,726 | 3.2 ppb |
| Cowley Co Rwd 3 | 2,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cowley Co Rwd 5 | 2,000 | 2 ppb |
| Cowley Co Rwd 1 | 1,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cowley Co Rwd 6 | 792 | 1.6 ppb |
| Udall, City Of | 658 | 1.8 ppb |
| Cowley Co Rwd 2 | 600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Burden, City Of | 514 | 1.8 ppb |
| Cowley Co Rwd 4 | 500 | 1.1 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Cowley Co Rwd 8'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 Cowley Co Rwd 8 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.