Palco, City Of, KS
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 14 ppb (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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Palco, City Of at a glance
Palco, City Of serves about 210 people through 142 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 groundwater, in Rooks County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2016302; phone on file: 785-737-4285. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Palco, City Of's lead record
That is up 12.4 ppb from 1.6 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Palco, City Of is 14 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 14 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.2 ppb |
How Palco, 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. Palco, City Of's 14 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in Kansas and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
7 other systems share Rooks County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Palco, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Plainville, City Of | 1,762 | 4 ppb |
| Stockton, City Of | 1,380 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rooks Co Rwd 3 | 380 | 2.7 ppb |
| Damar, City Of | 115 | 2.3 ppb |
| Woodston, City Of | 95 | 4.2 ppb |
| Rooks Co Rwd 1 | 55 | 3.6 ppb |
| Rooks Co Rwd 2 | 40 | 1.7 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Palco, 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 Palco, 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.