Montgomery Co Rwd 12, KS
Lead reported as not detected
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 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Montgomery Co Rwd 12 at a glance
Montgomery Co Rwd 12 serves about 756 people through 252 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 Montgomery County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2012521; phone on file: 620-336-2721. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Montgomery Co Rwd 12's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Montgomery Co Rwd 12 is 2.2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.2 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. Montgomery Co Rwd 12's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 18th percentile in Kansas and the 25th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
14 other systems share Montgomery County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Montgomery Co Rwd 12. 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 4 | 745 | 0 (not detected) |
| Montgomery Co Rwd 9 | 430 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dearing, City Of | 376 | 0.7 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Montgomery Co Rwd 12's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. 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 12 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.