Geary Co Rwd 1, KS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.76 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
Who runs the water here
Geary Co Rwd 1 serves about 216 people through 77 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 Geary County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2006103; phone on file: 785-762-6615. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 1.76 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Geary Co Rwd 1 is 1.76 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.76 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 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. Geary Co Rwd 1's 1.76 ppb sits at the 57th percentile in Kansas and the 67th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Geary County
7 other systems share Geary County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Geary Co Rwd 1. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Frusi Water Treatment Plant | 35,784 | 1.2 ppb |
| 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 |
| Miller Mobile Home Park | 113 | 0 (not detected) |
| Geary Co Water District 2 | 78 | 6.63 ppb |
Next steps for Junction City, KS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Junction City, 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 Geary Co Rwd 1 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.