Franklin Co Rwd 5, KS
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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 Franklin Co Rwd 5
Franklin Co Rwd 5 serves about 855 people through 345 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 Franklin County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2005908; phone on file: 785-248-6744. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2020 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Franklin Co Rwd 5 is 0 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
Where this result ranks
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. Franklin Co Rwd 5'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
13 other systems share Franklin County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Franklin Co Rwd 5. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ottawa, City Of | 12,604 | 1.1 ppb |
| Franklin Co Rwd 6 | 2,960 | 5.3 ppb |
| Franklin Co Rwd 4 | 2,281 | 1.09 ppb |
| Wellsville, City Of | 1,933 | 2.08 ppb |
| Pomona, City Of | 890 | 8.1 ppb |
| Franklin Co Rwd 1 | 665 | 1 ppb |
| Richmond, City Of | 442 | 1.4 ppb |
| Franklin Co Rwd 2 | 400 | 0 (not detected) |
| Williamsburg, City Of | 390 | 1.7 ppb |
| Princeton, City Of | 252 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Franklin Co Rwd 5'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 Franklin Co Rwd 5 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.