Ness City, City Of, KS
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 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.
Who runs the water here
Ness City, City Of serves about 1,303 people through 813 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 Ness County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2013503; phone on file: 785-798-5479. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.2 ppb from 1.2 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Ness City, City Of is 1.2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Ness 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. Ness City, City Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 24th percentile in Kansas and the 28th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Ness County
5 other systems share Ness County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Ness City, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bazine, City Of | 279 | 0.6 ppb |
| Ransom, City Of | 253 | 2 ppb |
| Utica, City Of | 101 | 0.8 ppb |
| Arnold Waterworks Inc | 40 | 3.7 ppb |
| Brownell, City Of | 24 | 6.7 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Ness City, City Of'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 Ness 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.