Maple Hill, City Of, KS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (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. 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.
Maple Hill, City Of at a glance
Maple Hill, City Of serves about 646 people through 240 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 Wabaunsee County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2019708; phone on file: 785-256-4272. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Maple Hill, City Of's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Maple Hill, City Of is 1.6 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Maple Hill, City Of's 1 ppb sits at the 40th percentile in Kansas and the 53rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
9 other systems share Wabaunsee County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Maple Hill, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Wabaunsee Co Rwd 2 | 1,400 | 1.8 ppb |
| Alma, City Of | 799 | 2.7 ppb |
| Alta Vista, City Of | 422 | 0.7 ppb |
| Eskridge, City Of | 413 | 2.3 ppb |
| Wabaunsee Co Rwd 1 | 400 | 1.4 ppb |
| Mcfarland, City Of | 281 | 0.7 ppb |
| Paxico, City Of | 212 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lake Wabaunsee Improvement Dist | 185 | 1.9 ppb |
| Harveyville, City Of | 181 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Maple Hill, 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 Maple Hill, City Of whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1400 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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.