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Leavenworth Co Rwd 10, KS

Lead detected, under the action levels

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.1 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.

About Leavenworth Co Rwd 10

Leavenworth Co Rwd 10 serves about 499 people through 339 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 surface water, in Leavenworth County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2010315; phone on file: 913-723-3452. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.

Leavenworth Co Rwd 10's lead record

That is up 3.1 ppb from 1 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Leavenworth Co Rwd 10 is 4.1 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.

Period ending90th-percentile lead
20234.1 ppb
20201 ppb
20172.7 ppb

How Leavenworth Co Rwd 10 compares

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. Leavenworth Co Rwd 10's 4.1 ppb sits at the 89th percentile in Kansas and the 88th nationally (higher means more lead).

Neighbouring systems

15 other systems share Leavenworth County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Leavenworth Co Rwd 10. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.

SystemPeopleLatest lead
Leavenworth Water Department38,7570 (not detected)
Fort Leavenworth American Water Ent Llc12,9344.94 ppb
Lan Del Water District7,3021.58 ppb
Tonganoxie, City Of5,7021.3 ppb
Suburban Water Company4,7002.5 ppb
Leavenworth Co Rwd 1c3,2002.6 ppb
Leavenworth Co Rwd 73,0009.1 ppb
Leavenworth Co Rwd 82,5000 (not detected)
Leavenworth Co Rwd 92,0003 ppb
Leavenworth Co Rwd 5c7800 (not detected)

Next steps for Linwood, KS

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Linwood, 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 Leavenworth Co Rwd 10 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.