Glen Elder, City Of, KS
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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 Glen Elder, City Of
Glen Elder, City Of serves about 359 people through 306 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 Mitchell County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2012305; phone on file: 785-545-3322. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Glen Elder, City Of is 24 ppb across 20 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 4.4 ppb |
| 2021 | 24 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 4.9 ppb |
| 2020 | 5.7 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.7 ppb |
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. Glen Elder, City Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 13th percentile in Kansas and the 20th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Mitchell County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Glen Elder, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Beloit, City Of | 3,407 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mitchell Co Rwd 3 | 2,048 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mitchell Co Rwd 2 | 873 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cawker City, City Of | 447 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mitchell Co Rwd 1 | 345 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tipton, City Of | 188 | 2 ppb |
| Simpson, City Of | 81 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hunter, City Of | 51 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Glen Elder, KS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Glen Elder, 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 Glen Elder, City Of whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1500 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. More in what a past exceedance means today.