Hillcrest Courts, KS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.3 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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
Hillcrest Courts serves about 25 people through 11 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Finney County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2005530; phone on file: 620-290-3258. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Hillcrest Courts's lead record
That is down 2.1 ppb from 3.4 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hillcrest Courts is 3.4 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 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. Hillcrest Courts's 1.3 ppb sits at the 47th percentile in Kansas and the 60th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
11 other systems share Finney County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hillcrest Courts. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Garden City, City Of | 35,126 | 1.2 ppb |
| Holcomb, City Of | 2,228 | 0 (not detected) |
| Finney Co Rwd 1 | 2,200 | 0 (not detected) |
| East Garden Village Mobile Home Park | 1,575 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brookover Land Enterprises, L.P. | 1,180 | 1.46 ppb |
| Towns Riverview Subdivision | 950 | 2.4 ppb |
| Whitehurst Trailer Park | 176 | 0 (not detected) |
| Backcountry, Llc | 84 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mendoza Mobile Home Park | 65 | 0 (not detected) |
| G And P Properties Llc | 50 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Garden City, KS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Garden 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 Hillcrest Courts 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.