Elk City, 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.
Elk City, City Of at a glance
Elk City, City Of serves about 292 people through 169 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 Montgomery County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2012520; phone on file: 620-627-2483. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (0.8 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Elk City, City Of is 3.7 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.7 ppb |
| 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. Elk City, City Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 11th percentile in Kansas and the 18th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Montgomery County
14 other systems share Montgomery County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Elk City, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Coffeyville, City Of | 8,847 | 3.7 ppb |
| Independence, City Of | 8,464 | 1.9 ppb |
| Montgomery Co Rwd 1c | 2,450 | 2.9 ppb |
| Cherryvale, City Of | 2,159 | 1 ppb |
| Caney, City Of | 1,756 | 2.4 ppb |
| Montgomery Co Rwd 6 | 1,092 | 0 (not detected) |
| Montgomery Co Rwd 2 | 800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Montgomery Co Rwd 12 | 756 | 0 (not detected) |
| Montgomery Co Rwd 4 | 745 | 0 (not detected) |
| Montgomery Co Rwd 9 | 430 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Elk City, KS
Look up your address in Elk City, 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 Elk City, 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.