Frusi Water Treatment Plant, KS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.2 ppb (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. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
About Frusi Water Treatment Plant
Frusi Water Treatment Plant serves about 35,784 people through 5,900 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is federally owned and draws groundwater, in Geary County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2006114; phone on file: 785-802-7018. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.2 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Frusi Water Treatment Plant is 1.2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
How Frusi Water Treatment Plant 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. Frusi Water Treatment Plant's 1.2 ppb sits at the 46th percentile in Kansas and the 59th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
7 other systems share Geary County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Frusi Water Treatment Plant. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Junction City, City Of | 19,167 | 0 (not detected) |
| Grandview Plaza, City Of | 1,663 | 0 (not detected) |
| Geary Co Rwd 4 | 1,005 | 0 (not detected) |
| Milford, City Of | 400 | 2.4 ppb |
| Geary Co Rwd 1 | 216 | 1.76 ppb |
| Miller Mobile Home Park | 113 | 0 (not detected) |
| Geary Co Water District 2 | 78 | 6.63 ppb |
Next steps for Fort Riley, KS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Fort Riley, KS may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Frusi Water Treatment Plant 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.