Lecompton, City Of, KS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.8 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.
Who runs the water here
Lecompton, City Of serves about 592 people through 266 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 surface water, in Douglas County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2004501; phone on file: 785-887-6407. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.3 ppb from 3.5 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lecompton, City Of is 5.1 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 4.8 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 5.1 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. Lecompton, City Of's 4.8 ppb sits at the 92nd percentile in Kansas and the 90th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
11 other systems share Douglas County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Lecompton, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lawrence, City Of | 95,256 | 3 ppb |
| University Of Kansas | 35,000 | 5.3 ppb |
| Eudora, City Of | 6,449 | 0 (not detected) |
| Baldwin City, City Of | 4,882 | 1.91 ppb |
| Douglas Co Rwd 3 | 4,663 | 3.22 ppb |
| Douglas Co Rwd 4 | 3,370 | 0 (not detected) |
| Douglas Co Rwd 5 | 2,500 | 2.8 ppb |
| Douglas Co Rwd 1 | 1,400 | 1.1 ppb |
| Douglas Co Rwd 2 | 1,163 | 3.4 ppb |
| Douglas Co Rwd 6 | 360 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lecompton, 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 Lecompton, 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.