Gypsum, City Of, KS
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Gypsum, City Of at a glance
Gypsum, City Of serves about 402 people through 236 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 Saline County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2016906; phone on file: 785-536-4296. 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 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Gypsum, City Of is 2.2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.5 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. Gypsum, City Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 14th percentile in Kansas and the 21st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
10 other systems share Saline County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Gypsum, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Salina, City Of | 46,481 | 1.4 ppb |
| Saline Co Rwd 3 | 936 | 0 (not detected) |
| Saline Co Rwd 4 | 768 | 3.8 ppb |
| Saline Co Rwd 2 | 465 | 2.82 ppb |
| Assaria, City Of | 427 | 2.37 ppb |
| Saline Co Rwd 7 | 418 | 2.7 ppb |
| Saline Co Rwd 8 | 298 | 1.9 ppb |
| Brookville, City Of | 244 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sundowner, Inc | 220 | 0 (not detected) |
| Saline Co Rwd 1 | 80 | 2.53 ppb |
Next steps for Gypsum, KS
Look up your address in Gypsum, City Of'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 Gypsum, 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.