Mound City, City Of, KS
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 ppb (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.
About Mound City, City Of
Mound City, City Of serves about 678 people through 408 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 Linn County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2010709; phone on file: 913-795-2202. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mound City, City Of is 22 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2020 | 4.2 ppb |
| 2020 | 9.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 22 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 4.3 ppb |
How Mound City, City Of compares
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. Mound City, City Of's 3 ppb sits at the 78th percentile in Kansas and the 82nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
11 other systems share Linn County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mound City, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Anderson Co Rwd 1c | 2,112 | 1.8 ppb |
| Linn Co Rwd 2 | 1,960 | 6.9 ppb |
| Pleasanton, City Of | 1,238 | 6.2 ppb |
| Linn Co Rwd 1 | 1,200 | 12 ppb |
| Lacygne, City Of | 1,119 | 1.8 ppb |
| Linn Valley, City Of | 1,008 | 0 (not detected) |
| Linn Co Rwd 3 | 710 | 11 ppb |
| Parker, City Of | 236 | 3.6 ppb |
| Blue Mound, City Of | 223 | 2.6 ppb |
| Prescott, City Of | 207 | 3.3 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Mound City, 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 Mound City, 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.