Gaylord, City Of, KS
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.2 ppb (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 result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Gaylord, City Of
Gaylord, City Of serves about 83 people through 95 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 groundwater, in Smith County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2018301; phone on file: 785-697-2697. 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 down 3.6 ppb from 5.8 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Gaylord, City Of is 38.5 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 5.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 38.5 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.7 ppb |
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. Gaylord, City Of's 2.2 ppb sits at the 66th percentile in Kansas and the 75th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Smith County
4 other systems share Smith County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Gaylord, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Smith Center, City Of | 1,572 | 1.4 ppb |
| Smith Co Rwd 1 | 475 | 2.2 ppb |
| Kensington, City Of | 401 | 4.6 ppb |
| Lebanon, City Of | 182 | 3.6 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Gaylord, 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 Gaylord, 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.