Pittsburg, City Of, KS
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 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. 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.
Pittsburg, City Of at a glance
Pittsburg, City Of serves about 20,738 people through 8,291 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Crawford County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2003705; phone on file: 620-240-5138. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 2 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pittsburg, City Of is 2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Pittsburg, 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. Pittsburg, City Of's 2 ppb sits at the 63rd percentile in Kansas and the 73rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Crawford County
17 other systems share Crawford County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pittsburg, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Frontenac, City Of | 3,395 | 0 (not detected) |
| Girard, City Of | 2,497 | 2.9 ppb |
| Crawford Co Rwd 5 | 2,200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Crawford Co Rwd 1c | 1,915 | 1.2 ppb |
| Crawford Co Rwd 4 | 1,580 | 0 (not detected) |
| Crawford Co Rwd 2 | 1,460 | 1 ppb |
| Arma, City Of | 1,406 | 0 (not detected) |
| Crawford Co Rwd 6 | 823 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cherokee, City Of | 591 | 2.2 ppb |
| Crawford Co Rwd 1 | 430 | 2.1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pittsburg, 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 Pittsburg, 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.