Kiowa, City Of, KS
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.01 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 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.
Kiowa, City Of at a glance
Kiowa, City Of serves about 869 people through 628 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Barber County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2000707; phone on file: 620-825-4127. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Kiowa, City Of's lead record
That is down 7.59 ppb from 8.6 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Kiowa, City Of is 29 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.01 ppb |
| 2024 | 8.6 ppb |
| 2023 | 5.9 ppb |
| 2023 | 7.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 29 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 8.7 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. Kiowa, City Of's 1.01 ppb sits at the 41st percentile in Kansas and the 56th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
8 other systems share Barber County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Kiowa, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine Lodge, City Of | 1,723 | 1.8 ppb |
| Barber Co Rwd 2 | 245 | 2.4 ppb |
| Barber Co Rwd 3 | 230 | 1 ppb |
| Hardtner, City Of | 164 | 10.5 ppb |
| Sharon, City Of | 147 | 4.1 ppb |
| Barber Co Rwd 1 | 95 | 1.9 ppb |
| Hazelton, City Of | 84 | 0.7 ppb |
| Isabel, City Of | 66 | 0.8 ppb |
Next steps for Kiowa, KS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Kiowa, 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 Kiowa, 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. More in what a past exceedance means today.