Montgomery Co Rwd 1, KS
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Who runs the water here
Montgomery Co Rwd 1 serves about 175 people through 67 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 Montgomery County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2012505; phone on file: 620-330-0011. 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 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Montgomery Co Rwd 1 is 17.7 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 17.7 ppb over 15 |
| 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. Montgomery Co Rwd 1's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 7th percentile in Kansas and the 14th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
14 other systems share Montgomery County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Montgomery Co Rwd 1. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Coffeyville, City Of | 8,847 | 3.7 ppb |
| Independence, City Of | 8,464 | 1.9 ppb |
| Montgomery Co Rwd 1c | 2,450 | 2.9 ppb |
| Cherryvale, City Of | 2,159 | 1 ppb |
| Caney, City Of | 1,756 | 2.4 ppb |
| Montgomery Co Rwd 6 | 1,092 | 0 (not detected) |
| Montgomery Co Rwd 2 | 800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Montgomery Co Rwd 12 | 756 | 0 (not detected) |
| Montgomery Co Rwd 4 | 745 | 0 (not detected) |
| Montgomery Co Rwd 9 | 430 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Independence, KS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Independence, 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 Montgomery Co Rwd 1 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.