Manter, City Of, KS
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.
About Manter, City Of
Manter, City Of serves about 127 people through 114 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 Stanton County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2018701; phone on file: 620-493-3721. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.2 ppb from 1.2 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Manter, City Of is 46.9 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 6.3 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 46.9 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 2.9 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. Manter, City Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 5th percentile in Kansas and the 11th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
1 other system shares Stanton County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Manter, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson City, City Of | 1,343 | 1.1 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Manter, 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 Manter, 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.