Pottawatomie Co Rwd 1, KS
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
Pottawatomie Co Rwd 1 at a glance
Pottawatomie Co Rwd 1 serves about 7,535 people through 3,114 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Pottawatomie County, Kansas. EPA system ID: KS2014912; phone on file: 785-456-2452. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.05 ppb from 1.05 ppb in the period ending 2026. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pottawatomie Co Rwd 1 is 3.9 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2026 | 1.05 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 3.9 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.9 ppb |
How Pottawatomie Co Rwd 1 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. Pottawatomie Co Rwd 1's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 31st percentile in Kansas and the 36th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Pottawatomie County
14 other systems share Pottawatomie County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pottawatomie Co Rwd 1. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Wamego, City Of | 4,860 | 0.17 ppb |
| St Marys, City Of | 2,781 | 1.79 ppb |
| Pottawatomie Co Rwd 3 | 1,455 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pottawatomie Co Rwd 4 | 1,125 | 0 (not detected) |
| St George, City Of | 998 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pottawatomie Co Rwd 2 | 865 | 2.2 ppb |
| Timber Creek East Water District | 850 | 1.4 ppb |
| Westmoreland, City Of | 716 | 0 (not detected) |
| Onaga, City Of | 671 | 0 (not detected) |
| Olsburg, City Of | 221 | 3.4 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Pottawatomie Co Rwd 1'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 Pottawatomie Co Rwd 1 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.