Osborne, City Of, KS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.9 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
About Osborne, City Of
Osborne, City Of serves about 1,324 people through 771 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 Osborne County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2014105; phone on file: 785-346-5611. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (2.7 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Osborne, City Of is 3.6 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.6 ppb |
How Osborne, 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. Osborne, City Of's 1.9 ppb sits at the 61st percentile in Kansas and the 69th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
6 other systems share Osborne County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Osborne, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Downs, City Of | 804 | 2 ppb |
| Natoma, City Of | 300 | 2.1 ppb |
| Alton, City Of | 100 | 5.3 ppb |
| Portis, City Of | 86 | 10.7 ppb |
| Osborne Co Rwd 1a | 81 | 0 (not detected) |
| Osborne Co Rwd 2 | 60 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Osborne, KS
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Osborne, 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 Osborne, 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.